Researchers may have discovered why Covid-19 is so adept at jumping between species, which could help better predict how the virus will evolve...
‘The virus that causes Covid-19 uses ACE2 as the front door to infect cells, but we’ve found that if the front door is blocked, it can also use the back door – or the windows,’ he said.
‘This means the virus can keep spreading as it infects a new species until it adapts to use a particular species’ front door. So we have to watch out for new viruses doing the same thing to infect us.’ A study of the Wuhan wet market where some believe the virus was first transmitted to humans found evidence of Covid-infected raccoon DNA
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