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<blockquote data-quote="Dannyalcatraz" data-source="post: 8456487" data-attributes="member: 19675"><p>[USER=22779]@Hussar[/USER] </p><p></p><p>There’s actually more deer/human interaction than many people realize.</p><p></p><p>Besides their incursions into urbanized areas- often lured by feeders- deer are one of the most commonly hunted animals in the USA, both for trophies, as edible game, and in some areas, as pests. (See urban feeders, above.)</p><p></p><p>If deer become a significant long term reservoir for COVID, even if it doesn’t quickly mutate in them, they’ll still be in close proximity with humans who- demographically speaking- will more probably be unvaccinated.</p><p></p><p>But that’s not even the real issue. As you note, for the most part, we dont get that close to living deer, so the odds of direct deer=>human transmission would be low. </p><p></p><p>The thing is, all of the coronaviruses known to affect humans have had their “origins” traced back to reservoirs in rats or bats (hence the reason for the lab in Wuhan). But most of those aren’t believed to be direct zoonotic transmissions from rats/bats to humans, but rather via other (often unidentified) animals acting as vectors.</p><p></p><p>So if deer become a significant COVID reservoir, the risk of other animals that may interact with them carrying it to US increases greatly. Which means even if we managed to knock it down to virtually untraceable amounts in humans, there would always be a significant risk of a new outbreaks.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dannyalcatraz, post: 8456487, member: 19675"] [USER=22779]@Hussar[/USER] There’s actually more deer/human interaction than many people realize. Besides their incursions into urbanized areas- often lured by feeders- deer are one of the most commonly hunted animals in the USA, both for trophies, as edible game, and in some areas, as pests. (See urban feeders, above.) If deer become a significant long term reservoir for COVID, even if it doesn’t quickly mutate in them, they’ll still be in close proximity with humans who- demographically speaking- will more probably be unvaccinated. But that’s not even the real issue. As you note, for the most part, we dont get that close to living deer, so the odds of direct deer=>human transmission would be low. The thing is, all of the coronaviruses known to affect humans have had their “origins” traced back to reservoirs in rats or bats (hence the reason for the lab in Wuhan). But most of those aren’t believed to be direct zoonotic transmissions from rats/bats to humans, but rather via other (often unidentified) animals acting as vectors. So if deer become a significant COVID reservoir, the risk of other animals that may interact with them carrying it to US increases greatly. Which means even if we managed to knock it down to virtually untraceable amounts in humans, there would always be a significant risk of a new outbreaks. [/QUOTE]
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