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COVID spread among deer who passed mutations back to humans — with scientists calling it a ‘unique public health risk’
New York Post ^ | July 12, 2023 | Lee Brown

Posted on 07/12/2023 3:03:09 PM PDT by nickcarraway

COVID appears to have spread widely among the 30 million deer roaming the US — with some passing mutated forms back to people, according to a government-led study calling it a “unique public health risk.”

Researchers, including several from federal agencies, say they found “at least 109 independent spillovers” of the virus spreading from people to deer, including in New York.

It then mutated while being spread among deer — with the unique strain found in at least three cases passed back to humans, according to findings published Tuesday in the journal Nature. “Deer regularly interact with humans and are commonly found in human environments — near our homes, pets, wastewater and trash,” said the paper’s author, zoonotic disease expert Xiu-Feng Wan.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


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To: Right Brother

They would have Grant Money though.


21 posted on 07/12/2023 3:31:48 PM PDT by Sacajaweau ( )
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To: nickcarraway

I once shot a deer in my pajamas. He was also wearing a mask


22 posted on 07/12/2023 3:32:02 PM PDT by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you. )
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To: nickcarraway

I really don’t believe it.


23 posted on 07/12/2023 3:32:20 PM PDT by Sacajaweau ( )
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To: aMorePerfectUnion

I read Zoos were giving animals vaccines.


24 posted on 07/12/2023 3:33:30 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: Republican Wildcat

Here in NY....Our deer have to wear masks...except when feeding at the local saloon.


25 posted on 07/12/2023 3:33:46 PM PDT by Sacajaweau ( )
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To: nickcarraway

This means we must kill Bambi and his Mother.


26 posted on 07/12/2023 3:35:31 PM PDT by glorgau
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To: glorgau

Ted Nugent, please report to the white courtesy phone.


27 posted on 07/12/2023 3:36:54 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

Well, they’ve never isolated the Covid virus so the tests are all questionable, to say the least. Who knows what the deer had/have? Maybe they just reclassified a deer illness for their deer pandemic purposes - how would we know?
They did it for the human pandemic; why wouldn’t they do it for the deer pandemic?


28 posted on 07/12/2023 3:37:48 PM PDT by ransomnote (IN GOD WE TRUST)
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To: nickcarraway

Do you believe anything they say anymore?


29 posted on 07/12/2023 3:38:02 PM PDT by SoConPubbie (Trump has all the right enemies, DeSantis has all the wrong friends.)
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To: nickcarraway

Uh oh. I wonder if they are going to try to justify ‘culling’ deer now.


30 posted on 07/12/2023 3:38:57 PM PDT by ransomnote (IN GOD WE TRUST)
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To: nickcarraway

lol anywhere but a chinese lab!


31 posted on 07/12/2023 3:40:21 PM PDT by TexasFreeper2009
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To: nickcarraway

Makes sense. I never once saw a deer wearing a mask.....

/s


32 posted on 07/12/2023 3:41:31 PM PDT by rickomatic
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To: nickcarraway

SURE!!!!!!

Nothing works for them anymore. Sadly, they still have the power to suppress information concerning the side effects.

Part of me would love to be in the room when they discuss their insanity, but it would be impossible not to say something.


33 posted on 07/12/2023 3:43:17 PM PDT by qaz123
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To: nickcarraway

This is an attempt to ruin deer hunting and prevent subsistence hunting altogether.


34 posted on 07/12/2023 3:46:06 PM PDT by backwoods-engineer (Hold on, y'all, 2023 is going to be a ride you won't soon forget!)
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To: Wilderness Conservative

Nailed it.


35 posted on 07/12/2023 3:46:28 PM PDT by backwoods-engineer (Hold on, y'all, 2023 is going to be a ride you won't soon forget!)
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To: nickcarraway

Yet another reason to rid the woods of these tasty, er I mean dangerous, critters.


36 posted on 07/12/2023 3:50:00 PM PDT by Yo-Yo (Is the /Sarc tag really necessary? Pray for President Biden: Psalm 109:8)
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To: nickcarraway

So are we doomed again?


37 posted on 07/12/2023 3:50:29 PM PDT by MayflowerMadam
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To: nickcarraway

These marxist jackasses smoke some really, really good dope.
I wonder if they get it for free? /s


38 posted on 07/12/2023 3:53:29 PM PDT by lgjhn23 ("On the 8th day, Satan created the progressive liberal to destroy all the good that God created...")
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To: nickcarraway; All

Biden will be happy to oblige big pharma with another $trillion… for deer shots.


39 posted on 07/12/2023 3:53:40 PM PDT by Cobra64 (Common sense isn’t common anymore)
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To: nickcarraway

Yes, but there is a huge reserve of animals that cannot be treated... in addition to the morphing nature of viruses going back and forth.


40 posted on 07/12/2023 3:53:50 PM PDT by aMorePerfectUnion (Fraud vitiates everything)
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