CDC says animal-to-human transmission is rare but study’s lead investigator calls for closer look at virus in rats for new strains
New York City rats may be renowned foron Thursday in mBio, an open-access journal of the American Society for Microbiology, concluded that New York rats among a population of roughly 8 million are susceptible to three Covid variants.that animal-to-human transmission of Covid-19 is rare, noting that in most cases animals are infected by humans.
Wan, director of the Center for Influenza and Emerging Infectious Diseases at the University of Missouri, said the study was one of the first to show how Covid-19 variants “can cause infections in the wild rat populations in a major US urban area”. They trapped rats mostly in parks in Brooklyn and with the New York City parks department’s permission, particularly “in and around locations surrounding wastewater systems”.
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