Researchers at the CEU Cardenal Herrera University (CEU UCH) in Valencia, the Institute of Biomedicine of Valencia (CSIC) and the Autonomous University of Barcelona have detected the first case of SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus in a European river otter in Spain. It is a specimen of Eurasian river otter (Lutra lutra), whose remains were found near a reservoir in the Valencian Community. The finding, which is the first case detected of the virus in this species in the country, and the first case in the world in this wild species, has just been accepted in the international scientific journal Frontiers in Veterinary Science.
