“Reservoir Species” – USDA Releases Shocking Research on COVID-19 Transmission Between White-Tailed Deer and Humans
White-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus)
in 2022, 12.2% were carrying the virus and 31% showed signs of previous exposure.
in 2022, 12.2% were carrying the virus and 31% showed signs of previous exposure.
We'll, if you're creationism's favourite sadist, you don't just give up and allow your victims to win; you have a long-term plan to teach the upstarts a lesson.
Using the fact that immunity to your virus is short-lived because you designed their immune systems that way, you store your nasty little virus away somewhere where there is no vaccine-induced immunity and you can experiment with better, more deadly and more infectious versions of it and wait until your human victims no longer have enough immunity to resist the new, improved, version, then you transfer it back into the human population and sit back to enjoy the suffering again!
And what better than a wild species that humans regularly hunt for food, but which don't need to meet the food-hygiene regulations with which humans normally protect themselves from infections in domesticated species.
In China, this could be practically any species, but in North America, what better species is there than the white-tailed deer, which is regularly hunted for meat?
This, of course, is the sort of thinking an honest, troobuleeving creationist (if there is such a thing) would have to believe, because the evidence is that white tailed deer are a reservoir species harbouring the SARS-CoV-2 and providing an environment in which to mutate and evolve.
This evidence comes from the United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) which has just released the results of its first year of sampling white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) for active infection of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. These studies show that SARS-CoV-2 is likely to have spread widely within the U.S. white-tailed deer population.
According to a USDA APHIS news item:
WASHINGTON (July 11, 2023) – The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) released national research from its first year of studies and sampling of white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) for active infection of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. These studies show that SARS-CoV-2 is likely to have spread widely within the U.S. white-tailed deer population. Additionally, our research shows that SARS-CoV-2 was transmitted from humans to deer, mutated, and was potentially transmitted back to humans. This research is helping us understand if cervids, such as white-tailed deer, are acting as a host or “reservoir species,” meaning an animal host where the virus can survive and potentially change.
While experts are still learning about SARS-CoV-2 in animals, there is no evidence that animals play a significant role in spreading the virus to humans.
APHIS is currently in Year 2 of this research and has expanded disease surveillance for SARS-CoV-2 to other members of the deer family and additional States, territories, and Tribes. During the first year of sampling, APHIS and partners sampled over 11,000 white-tailed deer for SARS-CoV-2. We detected the virus in 12.2% of white-tailed deer, and 31.6% had antibodies indicative of previous SARS-CoV-2 exposure. Year 1 surveillance data, questions and answers, and other information on the APHIS white-tailed deer surveillance program are available on the Agency website.APHIS’ work to answer critical animal and public health questions around SARS-CoV-2 is continued with this research, however, additional research using a One Health approach is needed to understand what the risks are to wildlife conservation and public health with continued circulation of this disease in wildlife.
Dr. Mike Watson
APHIS’ acting Administrator
The collaboration between APHIS, state wildlife agencies, and others to conduct wildlife surveillance for SARS-CoV-2 is part of a more significant effort to strengthen our Nation’s ability to detect and respond to future emerging diseases in animals.
APHIS partnered with the University of Missouri and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on a recently published study resulting from this surveillance, “Transmission of SARS-CoV-2 in free-ranging white-tailed deer in the United States.”
Between November 2021 and April 2022, APHIS, state and tribal wildlife agencies, the Ohio State University, and the University of Missouri conducted wildlife surveillance for SARS-CoV-2 in free-ranging white-tailed deer, collecting more than 9,000 respiratory samples in 27 states. We found that SARS-CoV-2 was transmitted from humans to white-tailed deer at least 106 times in the United States, mutated, and then in three instances may have been transmitted back to humans. This study is available online at: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-39782-x.VIDEO: Mr. Gary Nohrenberg, Minnesota State Wildlife Services Director, discusses the first year of white-tailed deer surveillance data. This research continues APHIS’ work researching SARS-CoV-2 in wildlife and helps the Agency better understand how a disease that affects both humans and animals is moving and evolving in wildlife and how research better equips us to deal with future zoological disease outbreaks.
APHIS is currently conducting numerous projects to understand how the SARS-CoV-2 virus behaves in different animals, how it moves between animals and people, and what our public health partners can do to interrupt the chain of transmission. APHIS' strategic framework outlines how the agency is focusing its efforts to prevent, detect, investigate and respond to SARS-CoV-2 in animals and other emerging diseases that could threaten humans and animals.Deer regularly interact with humans and are commonly found in human environments — near our homes, pets, wastewater, and trash. The potential for SARS-CoV-2, or any zoonotic disease, to persist and evolve in wildlife populations can pose unique public health risks.
Professor Xiu-Feng “Henry” Wan, PhD, Corresponding author
Director of the NextGen Center for Influenza and Emerging Infectious Diseases
And Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology
School of Medicine, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, USA
Human, animal, and environmental health groups increasingly collaborate when One Health questions arise. APHIS and its One Health partners work together to harness the unique skills, knowledge, specific perspectives, and experiences to strengthen its understanding of SARS-CoV-2 and enhance its ability to detect diseases sooner.This research is helping us better understand how a disease that can affect both people and animals is spreading and evolving in the real world, and better equipping us to deal with future infectious disease outbreaks.
Dr. Ria Ghai, co-author
One Health Office, National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA, USA
In the abstract to their open access paper in Nature Communications, the authors say:
AbstractWhat a fiendishly neat trick, eh? Now the virus is free to mutate away from those nasty antibodies humans have in their bodies for a while, until, one day, someone eats a contaminated deer, the zoonotic virus crosses over the species barrier back into humans, the way it did in Human in 2019, and the pandemic can start all over again.
SARS-CoV-2 is a zoonotic virus with documented bi-directional transmission between people and animals. Transmission of SARS-CoV-2 from humans to free-ranging white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) poses a unique public health risk due to the potential for reservoir establishment where variants may persist and evolve. We collected 8,830 respiratory samples from free-ranging white-tailed deer across Washington, D.C. and 26 states in the United States between November 2021 and April 2022. We obtained 391 sequences and identified 34 Pango lineages including the Alpha, Gamma, Delta, and Omicron variants. Evolutionary analyses showed these white-tailed deer viruses originated from at least 109 independent spillovers from humans, which resulted in 39 cases of subsequent local deer-to-deer transmission and three cases of potential spillover from white-tailed deer back to humans. Viruses repeatedly adapted to white-tailed deer with recurring amino acid substitutions across spike and other proteins. Overall, our findings suggest that multiple SARS-CoV-2 lineages were introduced, became enzootic, and co-circulated in white-tailed deer.
Feng, A., Bevins, S., Chandler, J. et al.
Transmission of SARS-CoV-2 in free-ranging white-tailed deer in the United States.
Nat Commun 14, 4078 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-39782-x
Copyright: © 2023 The authors.
Published by Springer Nature Ltd. Open access.
Reprinted under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license (CC BY 4.0)
You can almost understand why creationists are so much in awe of the magic supernatural designer god, they believe created this virus and hid it in white tailed deer. It'd difficult to imagine anything more obviously obsessively malevolent than something that would go to those lengths to increase the suffering in the world.
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