Would it be possible for all new iNaturalist users and known younger users to be sent an email warning against doing close-up photos with animals that could potentially be carrying SARS-Cov-2 during the pandemic The reason I ask is I have seen close-ups by school age children of deer mice - dead and…

[image] abhijatshakya: they sleep in same bed and there interaction is quite close (which is not natural for me), can it be dangerous too? Potentially, yes. Psittacosis, or parrot fever, is a bird disease that people can get from living in proximity to birds, and there are diseases of cats an…

But the concern is more that COVID infected people, are infecting other animals. Various reports of zoo animals too.

While there have been a few well-publicized reports of zoo animals catching COVID, it is very rare and has only happened a handful of times.

Well, your pets shouldn’t be doing anything that could let them get COVID either. They shouldn’t be free-roaming, and I don’t think there are many circumstances where both owner and pet would be out and about, the pet would be exposed, and the owner wouldn’t. About the only thing I can think of is …

It has not been confirmed that rodents of any kind can carry COVID.

[image] Gayle R : They shouldn’t be free-roaming, and I don’t think there are many circumstances where both owner and pet would be out and about, the pet would be exposed, and the owner wouldn’t. Not all dogs are strictly pets, though. I can see a hunting dog in the field doing its work, the …

Taiwan tho, was a lab animal deliberately infected with Covid. Not a ‘wild mouse’

Life itself is risky. Anyway, it is worth living, if possible wholly, however high these risks can be.

[image] Italopithecus: Life itself is risky. Thank you. It seems like the story of my life is being forced to conform to other people’s ideas of acceptable risk. Sometimes I just want to shout, “Who gave you the right to impose your fear on everyone else?”

Thank you for that scientific link: 10% seropositivity for coronavirus in mice in the Canary Islands - interesting statistic. I wonder about omicron in particular due to these two papers: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.12.14.472632v1 and this paper from earlier on deer mice in parti…

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sedgequeen January 5, 2022, 4:32am 66

Nice image, though I don’t begin to believe it.

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