Govinda Parasrampuria

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For use elsewhere, the urine-screening method wasn’t practical. “Because, you know, nonhabituated chimps don’t stay close enough so you can catch their pee.” You could collect their poop from the forest floor, of course, but fecal samples were useless unless preserved somehow; fresh feces contain an abundance of proteases, digestive enzymes, which would destroy the evidence of viral presence long before you got to your laboratory. These are the constraints within which a molecular biologist studying wild animals labors: the relative availability and other parameters of blood, shit, and piss.
Govinda Parasrampuria
Chasing blood, shit and piss
Spillover: the powerful, prescient book that predicted the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic.
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