Researchers from Cornell University believe that the virus SARS-CoV-2 has a very high level of infectiousness due to the fact that combines the genomes of other coronaviruses, writes Journal of Molecular Biology.
the research found that the genome of the new coronavirus in 96% of the genome of the SARS virus (SARS-CoV-1), which in 2003 caused the death of 774 people. However, SARS-CoV-2 has characteristics of a benign human coronavirus HCoV-HKU1, the study said.
the First virus is not too contagious, it has this feature as a high mortality rate. The second type of coronavirus opposite — almost does not cause any harm, but spreads very quickly. So, scientists came to the conclusion that in their synthesis, they got a virus with high transmissibility and mortality. In addition to people, he is a danger to primates, cats, Minks and ferrets — receptors in their cells have the appearance of a human.
Read the article: “terms of appearance of antibodies to COVID-19”
