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Scientists detect a sarbecovirus phylogenetically related to SARS-CoV-2 from bats in Japan – News-Medical.Net

A team of researchers at the University of Tokyo in Japan have detected a sarbecovirus, called Rc-o319, which is phylogenetically positioned in the same clade as…

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Over the past two decades, three major betacoronavirus outbreaks have occurred: the severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) in 2002, the Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) in 2012, and the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) in late 2019. SARS-CoV-2, the pathogen that causes coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), spread rapidly across the globe by early 2020; the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the outbreak a global pandemic in March 2020. Nearly a year on since…

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