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#zoonotic — Public Fediverse posts

Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #zoonotic, aggregated by home.social.

  1. 💬 "Introducing heritable #rabies immunity into North American red fox populations 🦊 through gene drive represents a strategy to both battle rabies and adjust the #ecology of (sub)urban environments."

    🔓 Research Idea: doi.org/10.3897/rio.10.e134189 .

    #CRISPR #CRISPRCas9 #wildlife #publichealth #zoonosis #zoonotic

  2. New (as yet unpublished) potential evidence that #SARS-#CoV-2 was found in #raccoon #dogs (canids) in the #Huanan #Market in late-2019. Specifically, viral and raccoon dog #DNA in #swabs presumably taken at the time from a stall known to house those animals.

    Caveats:

    -not yet #peer #reviewed.

    -lots of DNA mixing together in a market.

    -can the #provenance of the data be #verified?

    - #zoonotic/#lab/market #origin are not #mutually #exclusive.

    #COVID 🦠 🧬

    🔗 theatlantic.com/science/archiv