The Alaska Department of Fish and Game has started testing wildlife for COVID-19. Scientists want to make sure a new variant doesn’t emerge in animals and then infect people. Via KTOOpubmedia
This article originally appeared atThe Alaska Department of Fish and Game has started testing wildlife for COVID-19. It’s part of a partnership with the U.S. Geological Survey’s National Wildlife Health Center and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
When she says “reservoir,” she means the risk is that the virus could take hold in an animal population, mutate and then infect humans with a new variant. “We stick it up in both nostrils, but we go way deeper,” said Beckmen. “I mean, we go way up to the level of the eye and roll it around and then put it in the media and then that gets sent to the lab.”
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