Tuesday, February 11, 2020

Coronavirus came from bats or possibly pangolins amid ‘acceleration’ of new zoonotic infections

Joel Achenbach’s article titled, Coronavirus came from bats or possibly pangolins amid ‘acceleration’ of new zoonotic infections, reveals the danger of a zoonosis, which is the ability of viruses to infect humans from an animal host. The article points out that the coronavirus is very similar to two viruses found in bats but there is a chance that the virus affected another species before infecting humans. Some researchers believe the “pangolin” might be responsible for this occurrence because the coronavirus that infects pangolin’s “is more closely related” to the coronavirus infecting humans. Researches also hint that if the pangolin is responsible for the coronavirus it will be extremely difficult to track down and trace because it is sold on the black market. Pangolins are endangered and trading them are illegal. When studying overall diseases since 1940, more than sixty percent of emerging diseases have been zoonotic according to a British Medical Journal. This can be explained because of new contact humans are having due to land and global changes

This article relates directly to our “Virus in the News” class because it focuses on a virus depending on hosts. In our class we learned that some of the hosts can be animals. These vectors make efforts to slow the spread of the virus very difficult because scientists cannot pinpoint the cause or host. For example, yellow fever wreaked havoc for close to 250 years before researchers figured out the mosquitos were spreading and infecting humans. Hopefully, the coronavirus will not take 200 years to pinpoint the cause and spread of the virus.

~~ John Sikora

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