N.B. monitors deer for COVID-19 after study finds 'nearly extinct
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New Brunswick is keeping an eye out for COVID-19 strains in white-tailed deer after a recent study in the U.S. found mutations of SARS-CoV-2 variants in deer that no longer circulate among people, raising questions about whether the animals could transmit the virus back to people.
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Wisconsin DNR testing whether hunter-killed deer have COVID virus
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Western Manitoba lab tracks SARS-CoV-2 in white-tailed deer with
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Deer Could Be a Reservoir of Old Coronavirus Variants, Study
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The COVID-19 pandemic: A threat to forest and wildlife
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The coronavirus may be evolving in deer, two studies suggest
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N.B. records 9 more COVID-19 deaths, highest positivity rate since at least Aug. 28
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