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Veterinary surgeons in Hong Kong are urging the government to stop culling hamsters and quarantine them instead, but an author of the study they cited to back their call has said the findings are not totally applicable in the real-world setting. The research cited is an article by a team from the medical school of the University of Hong Kong (HKU), published in scientific journal Nature in 2020, which found that golden hamsters would stop shedding the virus through respiratory secretions after six days of isolation. Dr Nicole Wyre, a specialist in avian and exotic companion mammals at Zodiac Pet...
