China: Zhengli & Daszak – Human-animal interactions and bat coronavirus spillover potential among rural residents in Southern China

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Zhengli & Daszak study, September 2019 –  “We conducted a cross-sectional study in the districts of Yunnan, Guangxi, and Guangdong, China…  Serological testing of serum samples from 1,497 local residents revealed that 9 individuals (0.6%) in four study sites were positive for bat coronaviruses, indicating exposure at some point in their life to bat-borne SARSr-CoVs (n=7, Yunnan), HKU10-CoV (n=2, Guangxi), or other coronaviruses that are phylogenetically closely related to these.

Authors: Zhengli Shi, Peter Daszak, Hongying Li, Emma Mendelsohn, Chen Zong, Wei Zhang, Emily Hagan, Ning Wang, Shiyue Li, Hong Yan, Huimin Huang, Guangjian Zhu, Noam Ross, Aleksei Chmura, Philip Terry, Mark Fielder, Maureen Miller

ScienceDirect.com: Human-animal interactions and bat coronavirus spillover potential among rural residents in Southern China

 

 

Russia: WIV “did absolutely insane things in my opinion, for example, insertions into the genome”

 

Russia: WIV “did absolutely insane things in my opinion, for example, insertions into the genome”

 

Russia: WIV “did absolutely insane things in my opinion, for example, insertions into the genome”

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** This post was originally published on June 7, 2021 **