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Biology
Study tracing the path of Ebola to the skin surface
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Ebola is a deadly bleeding disease caused by a virus that is endemic in parts of East and West Africa. Most people know that the main route of human-to-human transmission is through contact with the body fluids of an infected person. However, in more recent outbreaks, such as the 2013-2016 Ebola outbreak in West Africa, infectious…
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Genetic tracing at South China Seafood Market further supports animal origin of COVID-19
Credit: CC0 Public Domain A new international collaborative study has published a list of wild animal species available in markets where SARS-CoV-2, the virus that caused the COVID-19 pandemic, likely emerged in late 2019. The study is based on a new analysis of metatranscriptomics data published by the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The data came from…
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