In support of Badger’s findings:
More than one-third of wild deer tested in northeast Ohio showed evidence of SARS-CoV-2 infection of human origin.
www.nature.com
One important outcome: humans intentionally altering deer behavior by manipulating the variables of the natural world which should not be altered in the first place.
From the accelerated article preview:
“A major outstanding question is how the virus transmits between deer. Deer are social animals that live in small herds and frequently touch noses.
It is unclear if baiting the deer prior to harvest contributed the increased frequency of SARS-CoV-2 in this study but concentrating deer with bait could have potentially facilitated pathogen trans- mission through a population.”
Let’s evaluate that part about
: It is unclear if baiting the deer contributed to increasing the spread. Well, either it did or it didn’t; there should be no guesswork. Why did they not set up a separate control group that didn’t result in different deer herds meeting?
Small herds of deer coming together that would normally not ever meet nor touch noses. Hmmmm, a tough one I’ll have to ask my fifth graders but will keep it apolitical, just the basic question. They’ll know!
In support of Badger’s findings:
More than one-third of wild deer tested in northeast Ohio showed evidence of SARS-CoV-2 infection of human origin.
www.nature.com
One important outcome: humans intentionally altering deer behavior by manipulating the variables of the natural world which should not be altered in the first place.
From the accelerated article preview:
“A major outstanding question is how the virus transmits between deer. Deer are social animals that live in small herds and frequently touch noses.
It is unclear if baiting the deer prior to harvest contributed the increased frequency of SARS-CoV-2 in this study but concentrating deer with bait could have potentially facilitated pathogen trans- mission through a population.”
Let’s evaluate that part about
: It is unclear if baiting the deer contributed to increasing the spread. Well, either it did or it didn’t; there should be no guesswork. Why did they not set up a separate control group that didn’t result in different deer herds meeting?
Small herds of deer coming together that would normally not ever meet nor touch noses. Hmmmm, a tough one I’ll have to ask my fifth graders but will keep it apolitical, just the basic question. They’ll know!
Very likely increased spread due to baiting. To obtain swabs, these deer must have been tranquilized first. We can see that deer coronavirus (Ohio, 1994) also has the H245, as this article states under 'Deer-to-Deer Transmission and Evolution' 'has a substitution in the spike protein's N-terminal domain (H245Y).'
www.medrxiv.org
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