Americans have transmitted COVID-19 to wild deer hundreds of times, an analysis of thousands of samples collected from the animals suggests, and people have also caught and spread mutated variants from deer at least three times.
The analysis published Monday stems from the first year of a multiyear federal effort to study the virus as it has spread into American wildlife, spearheaded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, or APHIS.
Scientists analyzed 8,830 samples collected from wild white-tailed deer across 26 states and Washington, D.C., from November 2021 to April 2022, to study the COVID variants that had infected 282 of them.
By comparing sequences from the viruses in deer against other publicly reported samples from databases of human infections around the world, they were able to trace the likely spread of these variants between humans and animals.
A total of 109 “independent spillover events” were identified, matching viruses spotted in deer to predecessors it likely descended from in previously infected humans.
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“Overall, this study demonstrated that frequent introductions of new human viruses into free-ranging white-tailed deer continued to occur, and that SARS-CoV-2 VOCs were capable of persisting in white-tailed deer even after those variants became rare in the human population,” the study’s authors wrote.
Three had mutations that match a distinctive pattern of first spilling over from a human to deer, and then later another so-called “spillback” from deer back into humans. Two of these spillback variants were in North Carolina and one was in Massachusetts.
Can’t believe in the year 2023 we have to say: do not consume borax. It will not provide a “parasite cleanse”, it does not combat the “evil fluoride” in your water, and it is not a super mineral. It will damage your organs. Also, it’s not rated for human consumption so frankly, who knows what it’s cross-contaminated with (my personal bet would be arsenic).
Good morning to the trans man loudly slamming his girlfriend in the bunk above convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell, and ONLY the trans man loudly slamming his girlfriend in the bunk above convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell
*Capitalist voice* Bah! Humbug! That’s what happens when have-nots believe they get to have an education just like the worthy spawn of my worthy loins; the life long debt, you bafoons, is to keep them in check and make sure even if they get their diploma, they will forever only work exist to feed MY children; the real issue is people no longer know their place you’d think after decades of raising the costs they’d get the hint
