Nearly half of wild white-tailed deer in the United States have antibodies to the coronavirus or retransmission to humans in deer colonies

[Nearly half of wild white-tailed deer in the United States have antibodies to the coronavirus or retransmission to humans in the deer colony variant] (Canberra Integrated Electricity) A study showed that nearly half of white-tailed deer in the northeastern United States have antibodies to coronary disease. A study published by the U.S. Department of Agriculture on the online platform bioRxiv said that between January and March this year, a group of researchers tested blood samples for 385 wild white-tailed deer in the Michigan, Pennsylvania, Illinois and New York State areas, and they found antibodies to coronary disease in 40% of the wild deer; in 2020, authorities found antibodies to coronary disease in only three wild deer. The report has not yet completed peer review. Authorities said the white-tailed deer did not look sick and believed to be asymptomatic. The white-tailed deer is the second species to contract coronavirus disease in the wild after mink. The study has sparked concerns among scientists that the coronavirus disease is widespread in wildlife and could re-infect humans. The researchers who wrote the report noted that they feared that the coronavirus was creeping up in the white-tailed deer population, which could become a "training ground" for the coronavirus, breeding new variants. Because humans often have access to these local white-tailed deer while hunting, feeding or conservation work, new variants that are more contagious and lethal may be re-infected to humans in the coming days. (Lianhe Zaobao)

Source: Guangming Network