Scientists have found that 40 percent of wild deer in parts of the U.S. had neutralizing antibodies for the coronavirus, suggesting Covid-19 spread from humans in what is reportedly the first documentation of widespread exposure to the virus in free-roaming animals.
Source: Washington Times, August 4, 2021. Link.
This is not just an occasional one-off infection. This is serological evidence that wild deer have fairly widespread infection with Covid-19. This should be a big surprise to just about anybody. Nobody anticipated this was spreading in a wildlife species.” – William Schaffner, MD