The US announced on Friday that it had recorded the world"s first infections with the coronavirus in a deer, adding the herbivore animal to its list of animals that tested positive for the coronavirus. A statement said that the US Department of Agriculture recorded infections with the "SARS-Cov-2" virus that causes COVID-19 in wild white-tailed deer in Ohio. According to Reuters News Agency, a spokeswoman for the US Department of Agriculture, Lindsay Cole, said that they don"t know how the deer got infected, adding, "We don"t know how the deer was exposed to SARS-CoV-2.” Cole added, "It could have been through humans, the environment, other deer or other animals." She said that the US Department of Agriculture is currently unsure of the reason behind the infection. Before announcing the detection of the coronavirus among deer, the US Department of Agriculture recorded the infection of other animals with COVID-19, including dogs, cats, tigers, lions, ice leopards, otters, gorillas and mink. — Agencies