Tag: SARS-CoV-2

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...

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, researchers...

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 wildlife. North American...

As biologists worry about the potential for the virus that causes COVID-19 to spread to wildlife, the San Diego Zoo is using an experimental vaccine for several apes at the...

Researchers are trying to zero in on the origin of COVID-19, but many questions remain, even after international investigators traveled to China to gain a better understanding. Nature spoke to...

Months before a COVID-19 vaccine was approved for people, about 120 black-footed ferrets at a Colorado facility received an experimental vaccine in an effort to protect the endangered mammal from...

A mink in Utah has become the first confirmed case of a wild animal infected with the virus that causes COVID-19. ProMED, a program of the International Society for Infectious...

Researchers warn that biologists and others in close proximity to wild mammals should take steps to avoid spreading SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, to them. In a perspective published...

Coronaviruses in the same lineage as the one responsible for the current pandemic have been circulating in bats for decades, researchers found. This provides more evidence that SARS-CoV-2, the virus...

Veterinarians have confirmed the first two cases of mink infected with SARS-CoV-2 in the United States in a pair of farmed animals in Utah. In an Aug. 17 press release,...