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What makes a virus capable of causing a pandemic? - Earth.com
Aug 11, 2024 ... A Yale study finds that bat viruses similar to SARS-CoV-2 struggle with human transmission, offering insights for future pandemic ...
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A mutation made the coronavirus more contagious - Earth.com
Oct 31, 2020 ... As SARS-COV-2 has evolved, the D614G mutation located in its spike protein has made the virus more infectious, allowing it to spread more ...
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How do bats resist COVID-19 infection? - Earth.com
Sep 17, 2021 ... A team of experts at Monash University is investigating the responses of bats to SARS-CoV-2 to gain new insight into how to treat infection ...
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Proteins identified that may help COVID-19 spread in the body ...
Aug 15, 2020 ... An abnormal family of proteins that can cause major neurodegenerative diseases in humans may help to facilitate SARS-CoV-2 infection, according to experts.
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JN.1 is now the dominant Covid variant in the United States - Earth ...
Dec 27, 2023 ... 1 accounted for over 44% of COVID-19 cases in the United States. SARS-CoV-2 is still evolving. Dr. Heidi Zapata, an infectious diseases ...
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Studies urgently needed on the impacts of COVID-19 in animals -
May 8, 2020 ... The experts not only want answers to the questions of what animal species can be infected with SARS-CoV-2, but also want to know if the ...
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House cat had the same COVID variant as humans - Earth.com
Mar 4, 2022 ... Since being identified in 2019, SARS-CoV-2 has infected a wide range of animal species, both wild and domestic.
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Urgent wake-up call: climate change linked to COVID-19 - Earth.com
Feb 5, 2021 ... Climate change may have directly contributed to the emergence of SARS-COV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, according to a new study from ...
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COVID-19 may directly attack heart cells - Earth.com
Jul 3, 2020 ... “We not only uncovered that these stem cell-derived heart cells are susceptible to infection by novel coronavirus, but that the virus can also ...
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Vaccination offers more protection than prior COVID-19 infection ...
Aug 30, 2021 ... A new study published in Scientific Reports has found that prior exposure to SARS-CoV-2 does not guarantee higher levels of antibodies, ...
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