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Hikers are infecting Virginia wildlife with COVID-19, study finds
Six common wildlife species in Virginia have high rates of the virus that causes COVID-19 — a disease they likely caught from humans. The virus has been found in deer mice, Virginia opossum, raccoons, groundhogs, Eastern cottontails and Eastern red bats, according to findings in Nature. “I think the big take home message is the virus is pretty ubiquitous,” said Amanda Goldberg of the Virginia Tech University That meant little danger to humans from wildlife, researchers found. There was no evidence of humans catching COVID-19 from wildlife. The same was not true in reverse. Animals living in sites with high human traffic — like hiking trails — had three times the levels of COVI

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