03-03-2022, 10:51 PM
Filliam H. Muffman wrote:
How about the man infected with a deer-specific version of Covid19 (human > deer > deer variant > human)? There are a few dozen types of animals for this to happen with, not even including swine flu. I guess that's one aspect of it becoming endemic.
To my knowledge, no one has been definitively infected with a deer-specific version of SARS-CoV-2 ... if you have a source, please cite it.
Animal -> human transmission is definitely a concern, just as it is for the flu ... the difference being that a number of animal species don't seem to get as sick as humans do when they get the virus, and also there's the question of whether those animal species are coming into close contact with humans. Here's the CDC's take on it:
https://www.cdc.gov/healthypets/covid-19/wildlife.html
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-nco...imals.html