Researchers from the University of Minnesota College of Veterinary Medicine along with collaborating institutions in the United States and United Kingdom received $3.5 million in funding from the USDA’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture, the National Science Foundation and the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council to study the transmission of viruses during “commingling events”—when unfamiliar animals or people come together in a defined space and time with intensive and sustained contact.
The researchers, led by Noelle Noyes, associate professor in the…