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welcome to the cocky ride home for friday, November 12th, 2021. I'm Jackson Bird today.

White-tailed deer in America have been found to be transmitting SARS-cove-2 among each other in higher than expected rates.

Plus, next week will be the century's longest partial lunar eclipse. A new species of

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from the news today.

From apes getting a special type of COVID-19 vaccine to the rare cases of pet dogs and cats becoming infected with the virus, we've heard stories here and there about animals, mostly

domesticated and zoo or farm-dwelling ones, catching COVID-19

from humans. But a new, not yet peer-reviewed study shows that COVID-19 is spreading rapidly among

white-tailed deer, quoting NPR. Since SARS-CoV-2 first emerged, there have been several signs that

white-tailed deer would be highly susceptible

to the virus, and that many of these animals were catching it across the country. In September

of last year, computer models suggested SARS-CoV-2 could easily bind to and enter the deer's

cells. A recent survey of white-tailed deer in the northeast and Midwest found that 40% of them had antibodies

against SARS-CoV-2. Now veterinarians at Pennsylvania State University have found active

SARS-CoV-2 infections in at least 30% of deer tested across Iowa during 2020. Their study published

online last week suggests that white-tailed deer could become what's known as a reservoir

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