NBC New York reports that a team at Cornell University's College of Veterinary Medicine published findings last month that show COVID-19 spreading rapidly through the state's white-tailed deer. The researchers found that the SARS-CoV-2 variants in the animals were old and had not been circulating among humans for many months. The researchers wrote, "Although the pathways for transmission of SARS-CoV-2 from humans to White-Tailed Deer remain largely unknown, human activities such as feeding wildlife or targeted baiting of hunting prey could provide the opportunity for human-to-White-Tailed Deer transmission of the virus." Researchers want to examine the possibility of deer-to-human transmission and its risk likelihood. They say there has only been one reported case, in Canada, of a person testing positive for a white-tail deer-like variant. Read more about this story at NBC New York.