Research within the US have revealed a “silent epidemic” of human coronavirus in wild white-tailed deer and it may very well be circulating in different wild animals in different components of the world
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11 November 2021
A white-tailed deer within the Nice Smokey Mountains Nationwide Park in Tennessee Daniel Dempster Pictures/Alamy
Latest research recommend SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes covid-19, is rife among the many 30 million white-tailed deer in North America. This implies there’s a danger of deer infecting different animals, and likewise of recent variants rising in animals and leaping again to folks. So what does this imply for the pandemic and the way involved ought to we be?
It has lengthy been clear that folks contaminated with SARS-CoV-2 are often infecting pets, farm and zoo animals. Till now, nonetheless, …
