Open AccessCan we identify viruses with pandemic potential?
Author(s) -
Mark Woolhouse,
Jordan Ashworth
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
the biochemist
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.126
H-Index - 7
eISSN - 1740-1194
pISSN - 0954-982X
DOI - 10.1042/bio03903008
Subject(s) - pandemic , virology , covid-19 , wildlife , biology , geography , medicine , ecology , infectious disease (medical specialty) , outbreak , disease , pathology
There are believed to be thousands of as yet unknown viruses ‘out there’, circulating in wildlife and possibly our domestic animals too. Which of these viruses might have, or might acquire, the potential to cause the next global pandemic in humans?
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