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Viral diseases from wildlife in China: Could SARS happen again?

18 Jun 2021

To some extent, this method of classification is reflected in the epidemiology of the viruses, in that viruses in the same taxonomic group often have similar methods of transmission, clinical signs and affect similar types of organism. [...] The disease, named the Reston strain of Ebola, after the quarantine site in America, was subsequently found to be present in captive macaques in the Philippines. [...] But in the words of Peters, Johnson et al (1993), “the seriousness of the efficient (airborne) spread of a filovirus cannot be overestimated.” There seems to have been little further investigation into the natural ecology of this strain of Ebola, perhaps due to the lack of immediate public health implications. [...] Then, in the early 1990s, a group of new forms of the virus exploded on the scene in Europe and North America, prompting global concern. [...] This evidence does not mean the civet, or other animals harbouring the virus are the reservoir of the SARS coronavirus, nor that it arrived in the human population from this source.
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