Govinda Parasrampuria

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Li’s focused specifically on bats. The team trapped animals from the wild, drew blood, took fecal and throat swabs, and then analyzed duplicate samples of the material independently at labs in China and Australia, creating a double-check on themselves that strengthened the certitude of their results. What they found was a coronavirus that, unlike Leo Poon’s, closely resembled SARS-CoV as seen in human patients. They called it SARS-like coronavirus. Their sampling showed that this SARS-like virus was especially prevalent in several bats belonging to the genus Rhinolophus, known commonly as ...more
Govinda Parasrampuria
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Spillover: the powerful, prescient book that predicted the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic.
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