Coronavirus spreads in deer and other animals. Scientists worry about what that means for people

[Jeffr2]

Scary.  Especially if it mutates in an animal and jumps back to humans.  One reason more need to get vaccinated.

 

https://edition.cnn.com/2021/11/17/health/covid-deer-animals/index.html

Scientists have found SARS-CoV-2 spreads like, well, a virus among white-tailed deer and other wild animals in the United States.

 

People are the likely source, but that doesn't mean the virus can't evolve among these animals and then spill back into humans, and researchers are worried about what this spread means for the risk of future pandemics.

 

There's little doubt SARS-Cov-2, the virus that caused the ongoing pandemic, came from an animal -- almost certainly a bat. And the prevailing scientific opinion is that there as an intermediate host, an animal of some sort, that was infected by a bat or bats and then infected people.

[JackGats]

Yes, I remember an article months ago explaining this was by far the biggest threat, ie a Coronavirus that would thrive and mutate in wild animals, ready to jump back onto humans with a vengence. Domestic animals and pets were considered less of a hasard as they coul be monitored.