Category: Zoonosis
Preprint: Neutralizing antibodies in deer for at least 13 months for 90% of animals
Another preprint out recently outlines the disturbing prospect of a large SARS-CoV-2 viral reservoir developing in white-tailed deer in the US. … ...More...
Canada: First evidence of deer-to-human transmission
A recent report from Sunnybrook Hospital in Toronto, Canada, gives details of a highly mutated strain of SARS-CoV-2, and evidence of deer-to-human transmission.… ...More...
Preprint: Widespread wildlife exposure to SARS-CoV-2 in the Eastern United States
Species that tested PCR positive for SARS-CoV-2 included bobcats, opossums, squirrels, foxes, deer and rabbits.… ...More...
Ebola: “The risk of international spread cannot be ruled out” *2 updates*
WHO – “The currently affected Mubende district [of Uganda] has no international borders – nevertheless, the risk of international spread cannot be ruled out due to the active cross-border population movement.”… ...More...
Switzerland: Red foxes infected with SARS-CoV-2
A recent communication from a Swiss lab gives details of SARS-CoV-2 infections in at least two foxes in the Zurich area of Switzerland.… ...More...
Professor Jeffrey Sachs is pretty convinced COVID-19 came out of US lab biotechnology
The chair of the Lancet Covid Commission, Professor Jeffrey Sachs, whose recent report into the global mismanagement of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic we covered in this post, has used an online interview to explain his views on the origins of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus.… ...More...
Preprint: White-tailed deer still harbouring Alpha, Gamma and Delta variants in New York
Nine lineages including three major variants of concern; Alpha, Gamma and Delta, were detected in White-tailed deer samples in New York.… ...More...
Preprint: Susceptibility of alpaca, cattle, sheep, horse, goat and rabbit to intranasal infection with SARS-CoV-2
“We report pilot studies to evaluate the susceptibility of common domestic livestock (cattle, sheep, goat, alpaca, rabbit, and horse) to intranasal infection with SARS-CoV-2.”… ...More...
Italy: SARS-CoV-2 found in patient samples from September 2019
“We conclude that a SARS-CoV-2 progenitor capable of producing a measles-like syndrome may have emerged in late June – late July 2019”.… ...More...
Brazil: First case of monkeypox in a dog
The Brazilian Ministry of Health has been notified of the first confirmed case of monkeypox in a domestic animal.… ...More...