Original title: There is another reason why you should go to the United States for a traceability investigation of the new crown!
According to a report in the American journal Nature, a common wild animal in North America has recently been found to have been infected with the new coronavirus in a large area, but the reason why these animals are infected with the virus is still a mystery!
Judging from the introduction of the “Nature” magazine, this wild animal that has been found to be infected with the new crown virus in a large area is a common white-tailed deer in the North American continent.
According to the magazine, a survey conducted by academics from Canada and the United States found that 40 out of 385 white-tailed deer blood samples collected in the four states of Michigan, Pennsylvania, Illinois and New York from January to March this year % Of the samples were detected with antibodies to the new coronavirus, which means that these deer have been infected by the new coronavirus.
At present, academic papers related to this matter have been pre-published on the academic preprint platform bioRxiv, and have not yet been peer-reviewed. However, this matter has attracted the attention of many scientific research publications, including the journal Nature.
Some researchers pointed out that what is worrying about this matter is that if the new crown virus can infect such a large area of wild animals such as deer, it may also infect other wild animals and even domestic animals. And this may mean that even if humans can temporarily control the new coronavirus, this virus can find a “refuge” in wild animals, evolve quietly, and then make a comeback.
At the same time, researchers are equally puzzled by another question: how exactly these deer were infected with the new crown.
Judging from the introduction of the “Nature” magazine, these deer may be human-infected, because there are a large number of white-tailed deer in the United States, and they also have more contact with humans.
But these deer may also have been infected by contaminated wastewater or by other wild animals. Moreover, the source of these deer infections is also likely to cause other animal infections.
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