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CSU Testing Ugandan Bats to Study COVID-19 Transmission
South Park. Now, Colorado State University is looking into the correlation between the animals and the virus.
According to a press release from CSU, Rebekah Kading, a virologist at the university, and her team are studying bats in eastern Uganda to determine how diseases spread between the animals and humans. With SARS-COV-2 [COVID-19], it s arguably more important now than ever before to understand these interactions and how to mitigate risk of disease transmission while ultimately protecting the conservation of the bats and maintaining the integrity of their habitat as much as possible, said Dr. Anna Fagre, team member and veterinary postdoctoral fellow, in the release.
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A team of Colorado State University scientists, led by veterinary postdoctoral fellow Dr. Anna Fagre, has detected Zika virus RNA in free-ranging African bats. RNA, or ribonucleic acid, is a molecule that plays a central role in the function of genes.