Three Deadly #Coronaviruses All Began in #Bats
#SARS-CoV reached people in 2002, #MERS-CoV in 2012, and #SARSCoV2 in 2019. Each #virus caused a deadly #outbreak.
Confirms bat coronaviruses are closest relatives of #SARSCoV, SARS-CoV-2 and MERS #viruses. It also counts the other jumps between animals, which shows where the risk of new human coronaviruses comes from. A second data set of 250 SARS-CoV-2 #genomes clarified how the #COVID19 virus relates to its #bat relatives.
https://phyloinformatics.com/2026/11/10/CoronavirusOrigins.html
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