Two years after the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, the virus has been confirmed in Utah's mule deer population.
The Utah Division of Wildlife Resources said it collected blood and nasal swab samples from mule deer during their recent winter health assessments.
While only one nasal swab came back positive for the virus — specifically, the delta variant in a female mule deer in Morgan County — the DWR says several others had COVID-19 antibodies in their blood samples, indicating that the virus had already made its way into the mule deer population. U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service has been testing various species to study the virus in wildlife. It was previously detected in white-tailed deer in some parts of the country.
It is not yet known how this mule deer or others were exposed to the delta variant of COVID-19, the DWR says it could have been through other deer, another animal species, or even humans. The DWR also assures hunters that there is no evidence that people can get COVID-19 by eating meat from an infected animal, but they gave these tips for general food hygiene when processing game meat:
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