Researchers in Canada believe they have found the first case of a deer infecting a human with coronavirus, with a person becoming infected after being exposed to the virus by a deer harvested in a hunt, the Guardian reports.
Using nasal swab tests and monitoring the animals thyroids, researchers were able to test nearly 300 white-tail deer. They found active coronavirus in 17 of them, although the strain found was radically different than the one causing the pandemic, making it unlikely to sweep through the human population.