Oddbean new post about login | logout The virus responsible for COVID-19 is now widespread in wildlife. A new study in the US identified exposure rates of up to 60 percent in some species. https://image.nostr.build/c11d9c3a49e76bdadfa310aeecfa6de2588e3e82eb304ba8c55a8c12a3d5f07e.jpg "I think the big take-home message is the virus is pretty ubiquitous," says Virginia Tech conservation biologist Amanda Goldberg. "We found positives in a large suite of common backyard animals."
Virginia Tech and published in Nature Communications, the virus responsible for COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2, is widespread among wildlife species . The study found that the virus was detected in six common backyard species, including deer mice, opossums, raccoons, groundhogs, cottontail rabbits, and red bats. Antibodies indicating prior exposure to the virus were also found in five species
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