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Scientists are concerned that the virus could evolve within animal populations – potentially spawning dangerous viral mutants that could jump back to people.

Scientists are concerned that the coronavirus could evolve within animal populations, potentially spawning dangerous viral mutants that could jump back to people, spread among us and reignite what for now seems to some people like a waning crisis.

GRAND PORTAGE, Minn. — To administer this covid test, Todd Kautz had to lay on his belly in the snow and worm his upper body into the narrow den of a hibernating black bear. Training a light on its snout, Kautz carefully slipped a long cotton swab into the bear’s

Scientists are concerned that the virus could evolve within animal populations – potentially spawning dangerous viral mutants that could jump back to people.

Wildlife experts are searching for the virus that causes COVID-19 in deer, bears, moose and wolves in Minnesota's north woods. Scientists are deeply concerned that the virus could evolve within animal populations – potentially spawning dangerous viral mutants that could jump back to people, spread among us and reignite what seems like a waning pandemic.

Scientists are concerned that the virus could evolve within animal populations – potentially spawning dangerous viral mutants that could jump back to people.

Researchers around the world, including Minnesota's Grand Portage, are trying to figure out how, how much and where wildlife is spreading the COVID virus.

Makie Jo Walters, 9, of Coleman

Makie Jo Walters

Researchers believe that climate change has caused multiple factors to come into play that is causing adult moose in Minnesota to be dying off.