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Hong Kong to kill 2000 small animals after COVID-19 found in hamsters

2022-01-18 16:29:47+00:00

bcsizemo: bcsizemo: Covid showed up last year in the local NC deer population

Yes, in Kansas too, as my dad noted. But if it is an airborne virus, would it be likely to spread from field dressing and butchering? I don’t think so.

I know they are detecting traces of it in sewer water too, but unlike the flu it doesn’t seem like contact by touch is the primary source of infection.

Otherbrother: Otherbrother: so I doubt we’d ever be able to cull enough animals to prevent wild reservoirs for this virus.

Well there is a difference between wild animals and animals in zoos vs pets - and that is people in close contact with them. We nuzzle and pet our pets, thus more likely to get something to spread to us, if possible.

I am less worried about wild animals - except - uh, well, at this point the still prevalent theory is that it jumped from wild bats to humans. In the past the pigs and birds are what spread new viruses to humans.
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