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Study suggests SARS-CoV-2 spreading widely within wild deer population
- rossdavidh 5y ago"Critically, deer-to-deer transmission has been observed in captivity. On Monday, a preprint of a new paper answered some more questions, showing that infection is widespread in a second state, driven both by its spread from humans and deer-to-deer transmission." The idea that mask-wearing and lockdowns will make this go away, now has to figure out how to get wild animals to wear their mask and avoid socializing.
- WalterGR 5y agoHas there been any documented deer-to-human transmission?
- rossdavidh 5y agoFrom towards the end: "The big reason not to hit the panic button is that we've yet to determine whether the virus can move from deer back to humans." That said, if it can do both human-to-deer and deer-to-deer, and we've seen other cases like mink-to-human, then it seems unlikely that deer-to-human is not going to happen (directly or through some other intermediary species).
- holonomically 5y agoEpidemiologists have been saying for some time that the virus is now endemic. It's like the flu, it's not going away.
- unanswered 5y agoWe just need a few more booster shots! And the anti-vaxxers need to get vaccinated!
- holonomically 5y agoI assume you're being sarcastic.
- dt123 5y agooh deer