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As I have been saying all along, no virus can be eradicated if it has a non-human reservoir. We are not going to euthanize all of America’s deer, nor are we going to vaccinate then all. The virus will mutate in the deer, just like it did the Danish minks, and come back in a new variant. We have to learn how to effectively treat this disease, we are not going to be able to vaccinate it away.
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If the virus has opportunities to find an alternate host besides humans, which we would call a reservoir, that will create a safe haven where the virus can continue to circulate even if the entire human population becomes immune," he says. "And so it becomes more and more complicated to manage or even eradicate the virus."
In the study, Kuchipudi and his colleagues looked for the presence of the SARS-CoV-2 virus in the lymph nodes of nearly 300 white-tailed deer, including more than 100 wild deer. "So these deer were either roadkill or free-living deer that hunters had killed [to eat]," says veterinary microbiologist Vivek Kapur at Penn State, who also co-led the study.
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Now veterinarians at Pennsylvania State University have found active SARS-CoV-2 infections in at least 30% of deer tested across Iowa during 2020. Their study, published online last week, suggests that white-tailed deer could become what's known as a reservoir for SARS-CoV-2. That is, the animals could carry the virus indefinitely and spread it back to humans periodically.
This is disgusting news. Whoever manipulated this needs to be torn apart on the world stage. Also, how did deer contract this? At the daycare, school or workplace?
The article states that it can spread "explosively" in deer. It may not be long before it happens in other species. Below are the known Covid animal hosts so far. First confirmed pet dog in UK has it.
I agree. This is something we need to treat and live with. It simply can't be vaccinated away. The writing is on the wall.
The list of animals which have been infected includes:
big cats in captivity
domestic cats
dogs
ferrets
fruit bats
mink
non-human primates
pangolins
pigs
raccoon dogs
rodents
white-tailed deer
This is disgusting news. Whoever manipulated this needs to be torn apart on the world stage. Also, how did deer contract this? At the daycare, school or workplace?
There are petting zoos with fawns and deer parks with deer that often have fences next to forests. Moreover sometimes deer are let loose from them or brought in from the wild.
deer = rodents. shoot them all. park in my driveway and tag out (im in 2F - 4 per customer!) Chad & Dads will chop em up for $75 each.
(can you tell I hate deer?)
And worse than deer covid, is CWD. eat one of those and you will die painfully screaming at the top of your lungs, all brain function gone (friend of my brothers died from that, horrible)
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