SARS Cov-2 Evolving in Whitetails
Contributors to this thread:Whitetail Deer
From: TonyBear
28-Aug-23
OH Goodie just in time for deer hunting season. Interesting article, however you would think they would use an actual photo of whitetail deer not Roe or Fallow deer.
Just an educated guess but since its primarily spread via respiratory route and deer have huge nasal regions and likely more ACE-2 receptors than humans, right?
Any vets or animal researchers care to comment?
From: TonyBear
28-Aug-23
TonyBear's Link
https://scitechdaily.com/scientists-sound-the-alarm-covid-19-virus-is-rapidly-evolving-in-white-tailed-deer/?expand_article=1
Sorry the link didn't work the first time. You can download the actual study from another link in the article.
From: RD in WI
28-Aug-23
Thanks for the heads up. My wife inspected a laboratory in California in early 2020 and our family masked to prevent infection after her return. She is reading the source article. Thanks again.
From: LTG 11
28-Aug-23
Treated human waste used as fertilizer.
From: Bowfreak
28-Aug-23
I'm going to live life on the edge and continue to hunt deer......maskless even.
From: midwest
28-Aug-23
I plan to continue to do everything maskless.
From: Bowfreak
28-Aug-23
How dare you Nick!!!
From: BowSniper
28-Aug-23
Lemme guess.... Fauci wants to sell us deer vaccines, and Biden will make it mandatory. LOL
From: MA-PAdeerslayer
28-Aug-23
Midwest x2
From: HDE
28-Aug-23
From: LUNG$HOT
28-Aug-23
I remember when in 2020 Lou stated jokingly “if I shoot an elk I’m going to have it tested for Covid”. Truth is stranger than fiction!
From: Coondog
28-Aug-23
Both of the deer I dropped off at the butcher last year had to have their noses swabbed and sent off to be tested for covid. Craziness. I thought they were joking at first when they said they had to do that. Then they brought out the swab and it was up the nose and into a container.
From: butcherboy
28-Aug-23
If someone came to my shop and told me I had to swab an animals nose they would be laughed right out of the building.
From: Rut-N-Strut
29-Aug-23
Just getting ready for election season
From: 70lbDraw
29-Aug-23
Damn…between CWD and COVID, it’s a wonder we have any deer left all. Maybe we need to put them on the endangered species list?!
From: Mhg825
29-Aug-23
I will wear a mask...made with scentlok!!
From: Live2Hunt
29-Aug-23
Funny how the study was done by an animal conservancy group. Read the whole article. I'm sure here in WI our great Gov. Tony Evers will try to hand out mask's to the deer, hunters will need camo or blaze orange mask's to hunt, oh the horror!!!
