Sunday, 19 September 2021

PRO/AH/EDR> COVID-19 update (322): SARS-CoV-2-like virus origins, Laos, spillover rate, WHO

COVID-19 -- Worldwide/Unknown
[Excerpt.] Historically, the emergence of infectious diseases in humans has most often been caused by interspecies barrier breakthrough of animal-origin pathogens. A natural origin of SARS-CoV-2 is by far the most likely scenario. Pinpointing the precise natural origin of the virus would also help to reject alternative hypotheses. Characterisation of the codon preferences of SARS-CoV-2 and its genome's structure indicate that the circulating virus is highly similar to strains carried by wild

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