Cause of grotesque wildlife mutations across the US revealed

"Mutated wildlife spotted throughout the US has sparked fears that a larger outbreak of infectious diseases may soon threaten humans. On social media, images of rabbits with tentacles on their faces, squirrels with oozing sores, and deer with massive flesh bubbles on their bodies have poured in from Washington to Minnesota to New York. Now, experts warn that Americans will see even more disfigured animals in the coming years due to one dangerous factor: disease-carrying insects."

"Throughout the northern US and Canada, squirrels have been spreading squirrel fibromatosis, a virus causing wart-like growths that may ooze fluid but usually heal on their own. In rabbits, cases of cottontail rabbit papilloma virus (CRPV), also known as Shope papilloma virus, have been spreading north throughout the Midwest, moving from Colorado to Minnesota, Nebraska, and South Dakota. Americans from the Pacific Northwest to the Northeast have spotted cases of deer cutaneous fibroma, better known as deer warts."

Mutated-looking rabbits, squirrels, and deer have been observed across the United States, showing wart-like growths, oozing sores, and large skin tumors. Social media reports have documented these cases from the Pacific Northwest to the Northeast and across the Midwest and northern US into Canada. Mosquitoes, ticks, and fleas spread the viruses responsible, and heat and moist conditions that favor these vectors are expanding into regions that previously lacked them. Squirrels are affected by squirrel fibromatosis; rabbits by cottontail rabbit papilloma virus (CRPV or Shope papilloma virus); and deer by deer cutaneous fibroma. These viruses are long-established, species-specific, and currently not transmissible to humans.

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