It also covers what happened to the animals, ranging from mild symptoms like a runny nose to more severe symptoms like myocarditis or even sudden death. The interactive visualization lets users explore which animals have gotten COVID, how many cases were reported for each species and the source of the data. On July 23, her team in collaboration with the Wildlife Conservation society published the first COVID data tracking dashboard for cases in animals in Scientific Data. Amélie Desvars-Larrive, professor at the University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna, and her team of Austrian researchers combed the internet for data from official sources. Now there's a first effort at compiling a global database of animal counts. Yet it's an important task, say researchers, because of the possibility that the virus could mutate into a perhaps more transmissible or virulent strain in animals and then pass back to humans. Those are difficult questions to answer – just as it's hard to come up with an accurate total for human cases, since many people don't report a positive test to health authorities. They're a few of the many animal species to have contracted COVID-19.īut how many species have been affected? And how many cases have there been in the animal kingdom?
The drawings represent the type of animal, including both domestic and wild the size of the bubbles reflects the number of cases in each locale.Ĭomplexity Science Hub Vienna/Screenshot by NPR
A screenshot of a map showing case counts of COVID-19 reported in different animal species, part of an interactive COVID data tracking dashboard rendered by Complexity Science Hub Vienna.
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