Oklahoma deer test positive for coronavirus
The Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation biologists have confirmed cases of coronavirus in white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) in the state after ...
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COVID-19 lockdown affects mammals across globe
As far as the average long-tailed macaque was concerned, life was pretty good in a small Thai village near the border of Laos. Tourists came through the village ...
WHO forms group to probe COVID origin
The COVID-19 pandemic has thrust wildlife health and zoonotic disease to the forefront. Yet researchers are still unsure where the SARS-CoV-2 virus, which causes ...
First U.S. ferret with COVID-19 confirmed
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service has confirmed the first case of SARS-CoV-19 in a ferret in the United States. ...
USDA to expand search for coronavirus in animals
The U.S. Department of Agriculture is preparing to increase surveillance for SARS-CoV-2, looking at a wider range of species for incidences of the virus that causes ...
Wild deer contract coronavirus
Deer are contracting the novel coronavirus in the wild, according to a recent USDA-APHIS study in preprint. Researchers found antibodies to SARS-CoV-2—the virus ...
New COVID strain found in British horseshoe bat
Researchers have detected a new coronavirus strain, related to the virus that causes COVID-19 in humans, in a horseshoe bat in England. Scientists sampled fecal ...
Wildlife entangled in COVID litter
A fish caught up in a latex glove. A fox entangled in a face mask. A penguin with one in its stomach. From Brazil to Malaysia, researchers have cataloged incidents ...
Is climate change linked to COVID-19 outbreak?
A changing climate has pushed more species of bats into new areas, where they may be more likely to share viruses like the one that causes COVID-19 in humans, ...
White-tailed deer can get coronavirus but show mild symptoms
In the year since the novel coronavirus erupted in North America, biologists have gotten a better sense of what impacts the virus could have on the continent’s ...