Evidence of COVID-19 in Texas Deer_02 (IMAGE)

University of Texas at El Paso

Evidence of COVID-19 in Texas Deer_02

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Douglas Watts, Ph.D., right, professor of biological sciences at The University of Texas at El Paso, and Pedro Palermo, manager of the UTEP Border Biomedical Research Center’s Biosafety Level 3 Infectious Disease Research Program laboratory, are authors of a study that proves for the first time that COVID-19 is present in white-tailed deer in Texas, a finding published recently in Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases.

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J.R. Hernandez / UTEP Marketing and Communications.

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