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Viruses That Jump to Humans Don't Need Special Mutations, Study Finds
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Viruses That Jump to Humans Don't Need Special Mutations, Study Finds
When a virus jumps to humans from another species, it can seem like a supervillain bent on world domination – especially if it goes on to ignite a pandemic, as many zoonotic viruses have done in recent decades.
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The transition of viruses from animals to humans, known as zoonotic spillover, is a phenomenon with the potential to trigger devastating epidemics and pandemics. For a long time, conventional wisdom held that these events depended on specific adaptive mutations in the virus, which would prepare it to infect and spread in the human species. However, new research challenges this perception, revealing surprising findings about the true nature of in…
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