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How do viruses leap from animals to people and spark pandemics? – Chemical & Engineering News
Scientists want to understand how viruses like SARS-CoV-2 make these so-called zoonotic jumps to help spot the next big outbreak
In 2016, just as the worst Ebola epidemic in history was dying down in west Africa, researchers from a US government-funded pandemic-surveillance program called PREDICT sampled bats in the hardest hit region in search of Zaire ebolavirus, the virus responsible for the outbreak. They were looking for animal hosts from which the epidemic had sprung.
Although they didnt manage to do that, they found something else: a new species of ebolavirus, the genus of viruses that cause Ebola diseases. The ne…
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