The Cincinnati Zoo announced Monday that 80 of its animals have received two doses of a COVID-19 vaccine designed for veterinary use.
In a press release, the zoo said it’s been vaccinating big cats, great apes, red pandas, goats, giraffes, river otters, skunks, bearcats, as well as some domestic dogs and cats.
The zoo said technicians and handlers worked for weeks to get their animals “comfortable with everything that they would see and feel when they got the injections” and that most were administered without anesthesia. Cincinnati Zoo Director of Animal Health Dr. Mark Campbell said in the release, “We were concerned that the fresh memory of the first injection would make animals less willing to offer a shoulder or thigh for the second round, but they did!”
The vet techs at the Cincinnati Zoo worked double duty during the past six weeks to give 80 animals a COVID-19 vaccine.Campbell added that the success “is 100% due to the strong relationships these animals have with care staff and our animal health team.”Since the start of the pandemic, COVID-19 has spread in zoos and farms across the world among certain mammals, like big cats, great apes and minks.
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