Posted on 02/07/2022 7:01:27 PM PST by Right Wing Vegan
White-tailed deer on Staten Island have been found carrying the highly transmissible Omicron variant of the coronavirus, marking the first time the variant has been reported in wild animals.
The findings add to a growing body of evidence that white-tailed deer are easily infected by the virus. The results are likely to intensify concerns that deer, which are widely distributed across the United States and live near humans, could become a reservoir for the virus and a potential source of new variants.
Researchers have previously reported that the virus was widespread in deer in Iowa in late 2020 and parts of Ohio in early 2021.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture has confirmed infections in deer in 13 additional states — Arkansas, Illinois, Kansas, Maine, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Tennessee and Virginia — Lyndsay Cole, a spokesperson for the agency’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, said on Thursday. Those animals were infected with earlier variants of the virus.
Research suggests that deer are catching the virus from humans and then spreading it to other deer, and there is no evidence that the animals are transmitting it back to people. But longer-term, widespread circulation of the virus in deer would give the virus more opportunity to mutate, potentially giving rise to new variants that could spill over into people or other animal species.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
Oh deer.
New York Times?
News Story?
Sorry, I need at least 3 independent confirmations from other sources.
Just your typical NYC resident who identifies as a deer. I,also,read that the Omnicron was prevalent amongst students in NY University who,identify as cats.
Oh see the deer
Has the deer a little doe?
Why, soitenly....Two Bucks! *SLAP*
We need to mask them now!
They can’t go back into the forest until they can show they’ve been vaxxed twice and got the booster shot.
Yep.
NYT is full of Schiff 24/7.
Coronaviruses are well known in animals. The idea that the NYT would verify that deer coronaviruses have been independently genome sequenced flys in the face of everything known about the NYT.
Dinner time yet?
Did anyone else glance at their nearby bottle of beer to see if it came from Yew Nork?
Did they look into all those ham sandwiches that tested positive for omicron?
Says here this venison comes from New York City.
NEW YORK CITY!?!?!?!?!
Get a rope!
Did they then put a mask on the deer?
What are they trying to pull?
Washington, D.C., August 27, 2021 — The United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) National Veterinary Services Laboratories (NVSL) today announced confirmation of SARS-CoV-2 (the virus that causes COVID-19) in wild white-tailed deer in Ohio. These are the first deer confirmed with the SARS-CoV-2 virus worldwide, although earlier ...
Seems the Ohio deer visited NY.
This is an attempt to outlaw hunting deer and other animals.
“The findings add to a growing body of evidence that white-tailed deer are easily infected by the virus.”
Then shoot one with a black tail, or a brown tail. Problem solved.
Follow the money.
A PETA funded $tudy, perchance?
Is this gain of function, reduction of function or neither. We need fauci and his evil grin to explain.
Demand that deer wear masks!!
If only the deer wore their masks.😃
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