Chinese authorities have confirmed a total of 213 deaths and more 9,000 cases due to the new coronavirus. Coronaviruses are zoonotic, which means that they are transmitted between animals and people. Every decade, a zoonotic coronavirus crosses species to infect human populations. In this decade, we have a virus, first…
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Coronavirus: from a food market to the world
In the last days of 2019, Xia Qingqing joined her parents for a dinner just 200 metres away from the now-notorious South China seafood market, in the central Chinese city of Wuhan. It has since been identified as the source of the new coronavirus that has killed more than 40,…
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