COVID-19 Is Mutating In Deer And Many Getting It From Humans: US Study
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The researchers indicated that their findings imply that white-tailed deer may function as a "reservoir" for the coronavirus.
Researchers investigating the origins and transmission of the deadly COVID-19 virus have recently identified numerous cases of the virus in white-tailed deer in Ohio, United States.
Scientists at Ohio State University have discovered that the virus is continuing to spread among animals and re-emerge in humans, and its genetic makeup is undergoing rapid evolution.
According to a paper published in Nature Communications, scientists collected 1,522 nasal swabs from free-ranging deer in Ohio between November 2021 and March 2022, tested those swabs, and found more than 10% of the samples were infected with coronavirus. Through genetic material analysis of the virus, the researchers determined that a minimum of 30 of these infections in deer had been transmitted from humans.