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    Michigan's white-tailed deer exposed to COVID-19: What it means

    A recent study from the USDA's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service discovered that white-tailed deer populations in Illinois, Michigan, New York and Pennsylvania had been exposed to SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19.

    White-tailed deer are found in every county in Michigan, according to the Department of Natural Resources.

    Researchers discovered antibodies for the virus in 33% of the 481 blood samples they collected from January 2020 through March 2021.

    Of the 33% of samples with antibodies present, only three were collected in 2020. All the others were collected in 2021, said Thomas DeLiberto, assistant director at the USDA National Wildlife Research Center and a contributing author of the study.

    When compared with 143 samples collected before January 2020, only one sample showed signs of exposure. Researchers determined this sample was a false positive, DeLiberto said.

    Researchers do not currently know how the deer were exposed, but it's possible they were exposed through humans, the environment, other deer or another species entirely, according to a USDA summary of the study's findings.

    There are about 30 million white-tailed deer across the United States which often come into close contact with people, according to the USDA...

    Michigan deer exposed to coronavirus: What it means

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    Trying to scare people out of hunting???

    There's been lots of talk about planned food shortages... so why not make people afraid of wild game?

    I've seen numerous posts that farmers are being coerced into plowing their crops under or crops rotting in storage fascilities or even get so far as being loaded on trucks and then just sitting there, going nowhere...

    This next 6-10 months is going to be "interesting."

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    Quote Originally Posted by A.J. View Post
    Trying to scare people out of hunting???

    There's been lots of talk about planned food shortages... so why not make people afraid of wild game?

    I've seen numerous posts that farmers are being coerced into plowing their crops under or crops rotting in storage fascilities or even get so far as being loaded on trucks and then just sitting there, going nowhere...

    This next 6-10 months is going to be "interesting."
    Can't scare me.

    Gov't subsidized farming has been around for decades in the quest to control the exports market. I'd be slow to think this is to deliberately spark a shortage.

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    Hah

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    Quote Originally Posted by FireBrand View Post
    Can't scare me.

    Gov't subsidized farming has been around for decades in the quest to control the exports market. I'd be slow to think this is to deliberately spark a shortage.
    Some language.

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