Deer mice, opossums, raccoons, groundhogs, Eastern cottontail rabbits, and Eastern red bats had signs of infection, and isolates from an opossum showed a unique mutation closely matching the Omicron variant in circulating in humans at the time.
SARS-CoV-2 widespread in Virginia wildlife, likely from people
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