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.
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Stupid deer. How come they’re not wearing masks? How come they’re not getting “vaccinated”? They’re putting us all at risk!
Not just them, but ourselves.
"Mask up: Deer Crossing!"
How do they know? Hearing sneezes in the middle of forests?
You’ll know them by all the hacking coughs heard in the forest...
Now we know where they are getting all their cases.
Are they jabbed?
Is there nothing that study cannot find?
Yeah but it would have been a lot worse if they hadn't been vaccinated.
Clearly we must mandate no hunting to help stop the spread…
I imagine they test fresh deer droppings, if not, I would like to meet whomever does the nasal swab test.
Between vehicles, CWD, shotguns, and Covid, we still have an overpopulation of deer. It would seem the deer have a better plan in dealing with Covid than the humans. The deer seem to not be too upset about the “human reservoir” of disease?
A couple of the deer are free to isolate...IN MY FREEZER.
wonder how they’re getting the deer to line up for testing...
Detection of SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant (B.1.1.529) infection of white-tailed deer
Here's another study..
SARS-CoV-2 exposure in wild white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus)
Folks who think they might get the coof from Bambi need to pay attention to the fine print in both.
That’s what they are doing with all the test kits ordered from china...
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