Could Mustelids spur COVID-19 into a panzootic?9 Dec 2020 17:32
Link: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32909703/
For those who have been waiting for sight of this information, I hope you find it illuminating.
Pertinent extract from my humble view:
Mustelids comprise approximately 60 different species (Kollas et al. 2015) and are widely distributed across a number of habitats, both aquatic (marine and freshwater), and terrestrial (prairies, steppes, tundra, forests). Several wild mustelids have become acclimated to urban areas - such as raccoons, otters and badgers, and some are raised in households as pets - such as ferrets. The latter are perhaps at greater risk of infection than their cousins inhabiting the wild, but it is the former that we should be most worried about. If infection by SARS-CoV-2 spills into wild mustelids, these have the potential to become a permanent reservoir of infection for other animal species.