Whether you are a nature lover, environmentalist, hunter, or all of the above, you no doubt heard the news in early 2021 that the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) found that as much as a third of tested white-tailed deer in Illinois, Michigan, New York, and Pennsylvania harbored COVID-19 antibodies.
Questions immediately ensued from the discovery: How did the deer get the virus? Could they transmit it to humans? And is their meat safe to eat?
