Duke Universitys Feng Gao, who led an analysis published on 29 May in Science about the evolution of SARS-CoV-2, says the new work by Daszak, Shi, and colleagues underscores that researchers have just sampled the tip of the iceberg of the coronaviruses circulating between bats that could jump int
Date: Jun 01, 2020
Category: Health
Source: Google
Evolution of pandemic coronavirus outlines path from animals to humans
"Very much like the original SARS that jumped from bats to civets, or MERS that went from bats to dromedary camels, and then to humans, the progenitor of this pandemic coronavirus underwent evolutionary changes in its genetic material that enabled it to eventually infect humans," said Feng Gao, M.D.