New COVID data links virus origins to animals, but findings not definitive: WHO
A French biologist spotted the information by chance while scouring the database and shared it with a group of scientists based outside China and looking into the origins of the coronavirus.
“There’s a good chance that the animals that deposited that DNA also deposited the virus,” said Stephen Goldstein, a virologist at the University of Utah who was involved in analyzing the data. “If you were to go and do environmental sampling in the aftermath of a zoonotic spillover event ? this is basically exactly what you would expect to find.”
It took virus experts more than a dozen years to pinpoint the animal origin of SARS, a related virus.
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