{"id":180196,"date":"2021-02-17T01:17:45","date_gmt":"2021-02-16T22:17:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/study-names-animals-likely-to-cause-next-big-covid-outbreak\/"},"modified":"2021-02-17T01:17:45","modified_gmt":"2021-02-16T22:17:45","slug":"study-names-animals-likely-to-cause-next-big-covid-outbreak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/study-names-animals-likely-to-cause-next-big-covid-outbreak\/","title":{"rendered":"#Study names animals likely to cause next big COVID outbreak"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Study names animals likely to cause next big COVID outbreak<\/strong>”
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Cats, rabbits and hedgehogs have all been implicated in a new study that aims to predict the animals most likely to launch the next deadly COVID-19 outbreak. <\/p>\n

With the help of artificial intelligence, biologists were able to design a prediction model that could prioritize potential hosts of virus strains already known to exist, but have not yet reached humans.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe want to know where the next coronavirus might come from,\u201d said Dr. Marcus Blagrove, a University of Liverpool virologist who worked on the study, BBC reported<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Their findings, published in Nature Communications on Tuesday, describe how artificial intelligence was used to predict previously unsuspected animal hosts of a novel \u2014 and potentially deadly \u2014 coronavirus strain.<\/p>\n

Finding which of the 876 potential mammal species might host one \u2014 but often dozens \u2014 of the possible 411 strains was the easy part. The trick was parsing out species that could harbor two strains at once, creating a breeding ground for a powerful mutant virus. <\/p>\n

\u201cOne way [viruses are] generated is through recombination between two existing coronaviruses,\u201d said Blagrove. \u201cSo two viruses infect the same cell and they recombine into a \u2018daughter\u2019 virus that would be an entirely new strain.\u201d<\/p>\n

Animals such as the civet, common hedgehog, European rabbit, dromedary camel, some primate species and domesticated pigs and cats were named prime suspects for recombination of SARS-CoV2 \u2014 the strain that caused COVID-19 \u2014 with perhaps dozens of other coronaviruses. These creatures join the list of usual suspects, including bats and pangolins. <\/p>\n

Recombination has already been observed in some of these species, according to previous studies<\/a> cited in the new report. But to identify novel sources for those as-yet undiscovered \u201cdaughter\u201d strains, the algorithm based its assessment on biologic similarities between known hosts and their related species, according to lead researcher Dr. Maya Wardeh.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe were able to predict which species had the chance for many coronaviruses to infect them,\u201d she explained. \u201cEither because they are very closely related [to a species known to carry a coronavirus] or because they share the same geographical space.\u201d<\/p>\n

Scientists hope these findings will help encourage more thorough monitoring of how and where the wild meets the human world, as researchers point out that viral \u201cspill over\u201d from animals to people is mostly the result of reckless human activity.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is not a reason to demonize these species,\u201d said Dr. Wardeh.\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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