U.S. government confirms world's first deer with COVID-19

[MikePal]

They'll have to develop a Pfizer 'pill' so we can administer it in Nov

CHICAGO — The U.S. government said on Friday it had confirmed the world’s first cases of COVID-19 in deer, expanding the list of animals known to have tested positive for the disease.

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The U.S. Department of Agriculture reported infections of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, in wild white-tailed deer in the state of Ohio, according to a statement. There were no reports of deer showing symptoms of infection, the USDA said.

“We do not know how the deer were exposed to SARS-CoV-2,” USDA spokeswoman Lyndsay Cole wrote in an e-mail to Reuters. “It’s possible they were exposed through people, the environment, other deer, or another animal species.”

The USDA has previously reported COVID-19 in animals including dogs, cats, tigers, lions, snow leopards, otters, gorillas and minks.

Worldwide, most animal infections were reported in species that had close contact with a person with COVID-19, according to the agency.

https://torontosun.com/news/u-s-gove...-with-covid-19

[LiveBates]

.......isn't there reports of people sticking the pcr in a potato and getting positives??????

[impact]

Did we not already cover this August 10th in Pennsylvania?

https://www.oodmag.com/community/sho...or-Coronavirus