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Mutated strain of coronavirus may ‘jump back and forth’ – Yahoo News Australia
A new coronavirus strain could potentially leap to other animals, such as mice and voles, says expert.
Mink at a farm in Denmark
A new coronavirus strain could potentially leap to other animals, such as rats, mice, ferrets and voles, an expert has warned.
The virus could then “come back in future years into the human population”, said Sir Jeremy Farrar, director of the Wellcome Trust.
His comments came amid new warnings about the virus’s evolution in mink.
The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control said mink-to-human transmission could occur.
And continued spread of coronavirus (Sars-CoV-2)…
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