The Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) confirmed the incident, stating the person “appears to be an isolated case with no further transmission.” According to Brad Pickering, the first author of the paper and a research scientist at Canada’s National Centre for Foreign Animal Disease, exactly how the person contracted the virus remains unclear.“Obviously it’s rare because, you know, we’re only seeing one (case) out of all of these things we surveilled,” Pickering told the Star.“Alternatively, it can evolve different capacities and different ways of infecting cells that are still functional in humans, and jump back into humans, which is the worst (outcome).“The more opportunities for this virus to evolve and jump back into humans, the worse it is.” In a news release, Dr. Samira Mubareka, a corresponding author of the paper and an associate professor at U of T’s Temerty Faculty of Medicine, said “I was not expecting to find this highly divergent virus.” Mubareka explained that because humans are often in close contact with deer populations, “including public interactions with wild deer and captive deer for farming, exhibition or hunting,” it may be easier for our diseases to spread within the species.Its website includes tips like cooking the meat to 74° C or 165° F internally; processing carcasses in a well-ventilated area with appropriate gloves and eye protection; wearing a mask when exposed to animal lung tissues and fluids; and more."