I wonder if this virus can spread to other primates?

[leftyladyfrommo]

That could really be devastating to a lot of endangered species.

[brokephibroke]

1. You mean like republicans?

And other lower forms?

[4139]

2. If it can spread to cats and dogs, it might spread to other mammals

[Wounded Bear]

3. I don't know that any pets were actually infected or sick from it...

they just found the virus on them, in saliva samples and on their fur.

However, even if they can't get "sick" from it, they can be contact spreaders if they've been exposed.

[4139]

4. Right now they say pets can get the virus(test positive) but don't get sick or pass it on

https://www.google.com/amp/s/abcnews.go.com/amp/Health/wireStory/dogs-cats-pass-coronavirus-test-positive-69404960

[Tanuki]

5. Apparently so, as research is already underway at Tulane's National Primate

Research Center.

https://globalbiodefense.com/2020/02/21/tulane-national-primate-research-launches-coronavirus-research-program/

.. "Tulane National Primate Research Center (TNPRC) is establishing a COVID-19 research program to develop a vaccine and test treatments against the virus. First, researchers will create a nonhuman primate model to study the disease’s clinical progression, how it is transmitted through the air and how it specifically affects aging populations. Investigators hope to answer many of the unknowns about the disease, including why older individuals are more susceptible to complications and death from it.

Earlier this year, TNPRC mobilized to become one of the first research facilities in the country to obtain approval from the Centers for Disease Control to receive samples of the novel coronavirus, called SARS-CoV-2. TNPRC is the only National Primate Research Center with a Regional Biocontainment Laboratory (RBL) onsite that is capable of the high level of biocontainment required to study an emerging infectious disease like COVID-19. It also has the nation’s largest capacity for studying the transmission of infectious agents in nonhuman primates at this level of biocontainment, which is critical as public health responders rush to understand and thwart disease spread."...(more)