Researchers say it is unlikely that the variant found in deer could bypass vaccines, but urge better monitoring of Covid in animals
As part of their study, Canadian scientists took samples from hundreds of white tail deer hunted last fall in southwestern Ontario. After conducting nasal swabs and testing the lymph nodes of the deer, they found 17 of the 298 deer were positive for a “new and highly divergent lineage” of the coronavirus.
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