{"id":4694,"date":"2023-09-19T21:18:19","date_gmt":"2023-09-20T02:18:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=4694"},"modified":"2023-09-19T21:18:37","modified_gmt":"2023-09-20T02:18:37","slug":"usda-grant-explores-covid-virus-in-wildlife","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2023\/09\/19\/usda-grant-explores-covid-virus-in-wildlife\/","title":{"rendered":"USDA Grant Explores COVID Virus in Wildlife"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wildlife.org\/usda-grant-explores-covid-virus-in-wildlife\/\">wildlife.org<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Researchers will test 58 species to monitor the potential for spillback to humans<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A new U.S. Agriculture Department grant will fund researchers to test wildlife for the presence of the virus that causes COVID-19. The $4.5 million grant will allow researchers to collect samples from 58 species\u2014chipmunks, squirrels, mice, moose (<em>Alces alces<\/em>), raccoons (<em>Procyon lotor<\/em>), wolverines (<em>Gulo gulo<\/em>), three deer species and several bat species\u2014to monitor potential spillback to humans.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The SARS-CoV-2 virus has already been documented in some wildlife in the U.S., including white-tailed deer (<em>Odocoileus virginianus<\/em>). Researchers worry that could lead to new variants that could reach humans as well as agricultural animals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cOverall, our goal is to safeguard the health of humans, wildlife and agricultural systems,\u201d said Kurt Vandegrift, associate research professor of biology at Penn State and principal investigator of the project.<\/p>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"\/secure-location.php\" style=\"display: none;\" title=\"l YyaBY vzzTqzIQtqjvMtsi\"><\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>wildlife.org Researchers will test 58 species to monitor the potential for spillback to humans A new U.S. Agriculture Department grant will fund researchers to test wildlife for the presence of the virus that causes COVID-19. The $4.5 million grant will allow researchers to collect samples from 58 species\u2014chipmunks, squirrels, mice, moose (Alces alces), raccoons (Procyon [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-covid"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4694"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4694\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4695,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4694\/revisions\/4695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}