Lions, Tigers, and House Cats: You Won’t Catch the CCP Virus From Felines, Experts Say

Lions, Tigers, and House Cats: You Won’t Catch the CCP Virus From Felines, Experts Say
Nadia, a Malayan tiger at the Bronx Zoo in New York City. Julie Larsen Maher/Wildlife Conservation Society via AP
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Lions, tigers and house cats, oh my.

Seven tigers and lions at the Bronx Zoo in New York developed dry coughs and other symptoms of CCP virus after being exposed to a zookeeper “asymptomatically infected with the virus,” according to a press release from the zoo on Sunday.