


Bruce Smith
- Jan 14, 2022
- 2 min
Covid and the Human-Wildlife Interface
A variety of zoo animals are becoming infected by Covid19. Some are dying from the disease. Although we can’t be certain, it seems likely these captive wild animals are contracting the disease from zoo workers and human visitors.
The susceptibility of some zoo animals to Covid only reinforces health officials’ concerns that wildlife may become a reservoir for Covid’s persistence and continuing threat to mammalian species, including us. Testing of whitetail deer in several