The first reported instance of COVID in a free roaming wild feline.
, revealed that the one-year-old cub, which was found dead in mid-October, just months after the second wave of the pandemic in India had receded, was infected with the Delta variant of the SARS-CoV-2 virus.of the coronavirus, and to assess the carrier status of SARS-CoV-2 among wildlife species, said the scientists, including Gaurav Kumar Sharma from the Indian Veterinary Research Institute in Uttar Pradesh.
Based on teeth marks on the cub and other pathological signs in its brain, spleen, lymph nodes, and lung tissues, researchers said the cub may have died after a fight with other animals some time after it began showing“Sometimes when these feline cubs start showing symptoms of any infection in the forest, they are abandoned by their groups and this one may have been attacked by another wild animal when it was roaming alone,” Dr Sharma said.
The US department of agriculture reported last year that more than a third of white-tailed deer in the state of Ohio were infected with the SARS-CoV-2 virus with evidence of deer-to-deer spread.last month, study lead-author Andrew Bowman said the virus may have found a “new maintenance host outside humans”.
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