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   COVID is evolving quickly in white-tailed deer, study finds   
      
   Mutated virus can jump from animals back to humans, researchers say   
      
   The COVID-19 virus is evolving in white-tailed deer at triple the rate   
   it evolves in humans-and future changes could have serious   
   consequences for people as well as livestock, according to a study   
   published Monday in the journal Nature Communications.   
      
   Researchers collected more than 1,500 nasal swabs from white-tailed   
   deer across Ohio between late 2021 and early 2022 to examine the COVID   
   infection rate, spread and evolution of the virus. More than 10% of   
   the samples collected were positive for COVID, with most of the   
   sequenced deer viruses belonging to the delta variant that was widely   
   circulating in humans at the time, according to the study led by   
   researchers at Ohio State University, National Institutes of Health   
   and St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis. But some of the   
   deer also had alpha variants that had been circulating in humans six   
   months earlier, the researchers found.   
      
   https://www.marketwatch.com/story/covid-is-evolving-quickly-in-w   
   ite-tailed-deer-study-finds-a7027d3b   
      
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