Ep. 373: Shirker Bucks, Baubellum, and Binturongs
The MeatEater Podcast
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The Whitetail Deer and the SARS-CoV-2 Virus
There hasn't been a lot of new stuff since we talked in december about the fact like you mentioned that these whitetail deer in the east are getting not only getting exposed to the SARS-CoV-2 virus and and having antibodies but they're also showing that they're being exposed to the actual variants. The concern is then that it circulates independently in the deer population and mutates as it does sure mutates and changes and then they're worried about it spilling back into humans. In one case where some guy that picks up road kills shows up with the version that's circulating in the Deer population at that time so that was a case where deer actually moved back to people
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