Vets in India are investigating the first probable cases of fatal coronavirus infection in wild monkeys. The corpses of a troop of 14 macaque monkeys were discovered over two days in Pawansa village, in Sambhal district.
Vets suspect that the primates may have succumbed to pneumonia and are awaiting official autopsy reports from the Indian Veterinary Research Institute (IVRI).
A verdict will then be given and potential poisoning then out ruled, the Times of India report. Local vet Dr Neeraj Gautam, who had earlier examined the monkey carcasses, suspected that the monkeys may have consumed some poisonous.
However he noted with interest the lungs of the dead monkeys were swollen and their body temperatures showed they had high fever –