{"id":6617,"date":"2024-07-29T13:24:00","date_gmt":"2024-07-29T17:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/?p=6617"},"modified":"2024-07-30T02:14:24","modified_gmt":"2024-07-30T06:14:24","slug":"sars-cov-2-widespread-in-virginia-wildlife-likely-from-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/sars-cov-2-widespread-in-virginia-wildlife-likely-from-people\/","title":{"rendered":"SARS-CoV-2 widespread in Virginia wildlife, likely from people"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An examination of 23 common wildlife species in Virginia finds evidence of SARS-CoV-infection in 6 and antibodies indicating previous infection in 5.<\/p>\n<p>For the <a target=\"_blank\" lang=\"en\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41467-024-49891-w\" rel=\"noopener\">study<\/a>, published today in <i>Nature Communications,<\/i> Virginia Tech researchers collected 789 nasal and oral swabs and 126 blood samples from animals live-trapped and released or being treated at wildlife rehabilitation centers in Virginia and Washington, DC, from May 2022 to September 2023.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An examination of 23 common wildlife species in Virginia finds evidence of SARS-CoV-infection in 6 and antibodies indicating previous infection in 5.<\/p>\n<p>For the <a target=\"_blank\" lang=\"en\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41467-024-49891-w\" rel=\"noopener\">study<\/a>, published today in <i>Nature Communications,<\/i> Virginia Tech researchers collected 789 nasal and oral swabs and 126 blood samples from animals live-trapped and released or being treated at wildlife rehabilitation centers in Virginia and Washington, DC, from May 2022 to September 2023.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/sars-cov-2-widespread-in-virginia-wildlife-likely-from-people\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">SARS-CoV-2 widespread in Virginia wildlife, likely from people<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[18,8,14,51,1200,1201],"class_list":["post-6617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-covid-19","tag-research","tag-sars-cov-2","tag-united-states","tag-virginia","tag-wildlife","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6617"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6617\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6619,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6617\/revisions\/6619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}