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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: webheart

Oh deer… not this again.


41 posted on 07/12/2023 3:55:12 PM PDT by Cobra64 (Common sense isn’t common anymore)
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To: Huskrrrr

“ Oh brother.”

Oh deer


42 posted on 07/12/2023 3:57:28 PM PDT by NWFree (Sigma male 🤪)
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To: nickcarraway

Lockdowns coming around October 2024. Mail ins and drop boxes..


43 posted on 07/12/2023 4:00:12 PM PDT by glimmerman70
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To: nickcarraway

Tested via the PCR that couldn’t distinguish between “Covid” and the flu? That the Nobel-winning inventor of said was inappropriate to use as a diagnostic? That can be spun up to nearly 100% false positives of whatever you want to find?


44 posted on 07/12/2023 4:03:30 PM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: nickcarraway

Killer Bambi is on the loose!


45 posted on 07/12/2023 4:13:41 PM PDT by drSteve78 (Je suis Deplorable. Even more so.)
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To: Apparatchik

She seems dear.


46 posted on 07/12/2023 4:14:48 PM PDT by drSteve78 (Je suis Deplorable. Even more so.)
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To: Vaquero

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

And why, may i ask, was he wearing your pajamas? 🤣


47 posted on 07/12/2023 4:16:01 PM PDT by drSteve78 (Je suis Deplorable. Even more so.)
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To: nickcarraway

48 posted on 07/12/2023 4:19:47 PM PDT by DannyTN
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To: Billthedrill
Aw, man. First they tell me I can’t have sex with monkeys, now it’s deer. Bats are out and don’t even start me on how hard it is to get a date with a pangolin. What next?

Biological women because Racism.

49 posted on 07/12/2023 4:19:48 PM PDT by pax_et_bonum (“Killer rabbit jokes have a long tradition in medieval literature.“ - Dr. James Wade)
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To: Republican Wildcat

Deer regularly interact with humans

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Right. More likely deer regularly interact with my dinner plate. They interact first with my bow, arrows, and later, rifle.

Jeez, Louise.


50 posted on 07/12/2023 4:26:45 PM PDT by StAntKnee (Add your own danged sarc tag)
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To: Cobra64

Any wonder so many of us are reluctant to follow the science? Crap like this.


51 posted on 07/12/2023 4:30:40 PM PDT by StAntKnee (Add your own danged sarc tag)
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To: nickcarraway

OMG! Here we go again! This will never stop. Next, your pet will probably kill you if you don’t get it and yourself *****.


52 posted on 07/12/2023 4:34:02 PM PDT by TribalPrincess2U (D.I.S.T.R.A.C.T.I.O.N.S.)
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To: nickcarraway

“government led” study


53 posted on 07/12/2023 4:34:19 PM PDT by Third Person
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To: nickcarraway

Deer are extremely shy. How they would even breath the same air (outdoors yet) long enough to transmit a virus seems like a near impossibility. Only zookeepers, vets and people with deer for pets would have lengthy close contact. What are the chances even then with such a limited group?


54 posted on 07/12/2023 4:48:17 PM PDT by skr (Righteousness exalteth a nation: but sin is a reproach to any people. - Proverbs 14:34)
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To: 9YearLurker

“That can be spun up to nearly 100% false positives of whatever you want to find?”

IIRC, The inventor said it should be spun 24ish times. The CDC said 35 times (90% false positive)! Some labs were doing 45 spins!!!

Hospitals got a chunk of cash for the diagnosis. Follow the money.


55 posted on 07/12/2023 4:48:39 PM PDT by lizma2
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To: nickcarraway

Did Governor Cuomo force New York nursing homes to have a petting zoo along with all of the infected housed there?


56 posted on 07/12/2023 4:59:53 PM PDT by KarlInOhio (Democrats' version of MAGA: Making America the Gulag Archipelago )
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To: nickcarraway

The main point of this article escapes the fact that no vaccine was ever possible against the virion— all vaccines were derived from the spike S protein. Both components mutated several times... up to Omicron and beyond for the S protein.

The reason why a vaccine of the virion would never work is because of the very nature of a coronavirus as SARS-Covid 19== which is zoonotic transferring to other mammals and back. In fact, mammalian reservoirs of SARS Covid exist in other mammals without being transferred or are mutated before transferring naturally. Monkeys, deer, rodents,pigs— yes domestic pigs, cows. Zoonotic was reality the entire pandemic— the process of becoming endemic in humans and animals alike.


57 posted on 07/12/2023 5:02:54 PM PDT by John S Mosby (.Sic Semper Tyrannis.)
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To: nickcarraway

All the more reason to stay the hell away from the vax. Let your naturally enhanced autoimmune system and therapeutics address the problem.


58 posted on 07/12/2023 5:07:27 PM PDT by iontheball
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59 posted on 07/12/2023 5:22:32 PM PDT by Rio
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To: nickcarraway
"Passed back to humans..."

Impossible!


60 posted on 07/12/2023 5:39:50 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (I don’t like to think before I say something...I want to be just as surprised as everyone else.)
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