Tag: coronavirus

Recent research backs the notion that humans have transmitted the virus that causes COVID-19 to animals around the world, raising concerns that animals could serve as a reservoir for the...

A “big night” only happens a couple of times a year, and conditions have to be just right. It has to be springtime, when the weather has risen above 45...

The Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation biologists have confirmed cases of coronavirus in white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) in the state after taking blood samples this year and last. The finding...

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 temple often,...

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 the disease, originated. It’s been a...

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. Wildlife workers tested the ferret...

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 COVID-19 in humans. The...

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 that causes COVID-19 in humans—in 40% of...

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 samples for viruses from 50...

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...