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surveyed over 11,000 white-tailed deer from 26 states and Washington, DC. Of those, 31.6 percent had antibodies indicating a previous infection with SARS-CoV-2, and 12.2 percent had detectable ...
Scientists analyzed 8,830 samples collected from wild white-tailed deer across 26 states and Washington, D.C., from November 2021 to April 2022, to study the COVID variants that had infected 282 ...
A white-tailed deer in Canada likely infected a human with coronavirus, according to new research. The case, reported in a preprint journal, would be the first known instance of a COVID-19 ...
The study indicates that, between April 2020 and January 2021, up to 80 percent of white-tailed deer in Iowa became infected with SARS-CoV-2. “We have just started testing wild animals for the ...
More infected tick. (Credit: California Department of Public Health) Curiously, although deer, such as white-tailed deer, can become infected with B. burgdorferi, they are considered to be ...
deer baiting bans and tightening up security of cattle farms and their feed operations have reduced the infection rate in whitetail deer in northeast Lower Michigan, but the infection rate has ...
Deer infected with CWD may be called "zombie deer ... The disease was detected this month in a male white-tailed deer in the northeastern part of the state, which borders part of Michigan ...
Georgia DNR confirmed a second case of Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) in a deer in Berrien County, near the first case in ...
A new case of chronic wasting disease, an incurable illness that has the potential to decimate deer populations, has been identified in British Columbia. The B.C. Ministry of Water, Land and ...
The B.C. Ministry of Water, Land and Resource Stewardship said the discovery of the infection in a white-tailed deer hunted in the Kootenay region last month brought the total number of cases in ...