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Interesting thing: Researchers have looked at the variants in deer, and they closely match the percentage of each variant in the local human population. There is no variant specifically adapted to deer. I can see hunters getting it from deer, but how does the other direction work? Deer hunters don't ever "catch and release". It might be through field mice, if they can pick up the human shed virus from droplets on the ground. Then their feces and respiratory droplets contaminate the grass deer eat. Domesticated deer could catch it directly from their caretakers, but I imagine they have little close contact with wild deer. It may be that deer are highly susceptible, so they can pick it up from objects or surfaces humans have sneezed on.