According to researchers, the fact that rats can catch the virus from people means that they can pass it back, particularly if they come in close contact with humans. NYC's rats infected with virus that causes COVID:
After rats in Hong Kong and Belgium were suspected of carrying the SARS-CoV-2 virus, federal researchers teamed up with several academics to study Norway rats, which make up most of the wild rat populations in New York City.
. Two of those were infected at the time of study, though they didn't show any obvious symptoms, according to Xiu-Feng "Henry" Wan, a pathogen expert at the University of Missouri, who helped lead the study.Researchers then took Sprague Dawley rats and infected them in the lab with different variants of SARS-CoV-2, showing they could be infected by the alpha, delta and omicron variants.
Lipkin, who was involved in both earlier studies but not the new one, said he's not at all surprised city rats would be infected with SARS-CoV-2.
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