THE HUNT FOR CORONAVIRUS CARRIERS
[...]with more than 1,400 species, "bats are more ofa black box than other animals", says Gryseels. Because bats and humans aren't often in close contact, it's highly unlikely that people will spread the virus to colonies that haven't been exposed, says Kaitlin Sawatzki, a v...
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| Published in: | Nature (London) 2021-03, Vol.591 (7848), p.26-28 |
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| Summary: | [...]with more than 1,400 species, "bats are more ofa black box than other animals", says Gryseels. Because bats and humans aren't often in close contact, it's highly unlikely that people will spread the virus to colonies that haven't been exposed, says Kaitlin Sawatzki, a virologist at Tufts University in Boston, Massachusetts. Among them are ferrets7,9 and cats4, raccoon dogs (Nyctereutes procyonoides)7, white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus)10 and several species of non-human primates10. [...]they get over infection quickly, which means that they probably aren't infectious for long, says Angela Bosco-Lauth, an infectious-disease researcher at Colorado State University in Fort Collins, who has studied the effects of SARS-CoV-2 infection in cats8. Of 920 blood samples taken from a random collection of cats in Germany between April and September, during the first pandemic wave, Beer and his colleagues found only 6 with antibodies against SARS-CoV-2 - some 0.7% - corresponding to the low rates of infection detected in people13. |
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| ISSN: | 0028-0836 1476-4687 |