Source: Victoria G. Myers, PROGRESSIVE FARMER, 10/18/21

Early in the pandemic crisis, researchers and scientists at the Agricultural Research Service (ARS) started studying whether COVID-19 could infect farm animals. And if livestock could be infected, could they transmit the virus to people through direct contact, or even through any agricultural product coming from these animals? A newly released report on that research, which goes back to February 2020, reveals the answer is "no."

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