The Lancet medical journal reported that the virus has a reservoir in pale-throated sloths, but also non-human primates and birds. Nonetheless the possible link to sloths seems to have caught on.

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — On Tuesday, the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo announced it has welcomed a new baby sloth. The sloth was born on Dec. 18. The mom, a 9-year-old Hoffman's two-toed sloth named ...