Contagion

• Autores: Carrie Arnold
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 2955, 2014, págs. 44-47
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Hordes of deadly diseases are lurking in bats and sometimes jumping to people. The diversity and the high prevalence of coronaviruses in bats create more chances for these viruses to spill over into humans. The big fear is that a virus could not only jump to people but also acquire the ability to spread readily among them, causing another big outbreak like SARS or worse. Fortunately, the MERS virus has not done this--there have been fewer than zoo confirmed cases so far. But with every new case, there is a risk that the MERS virus will evolve the ability to spread more readily among people. Here, Arnold explains why bats will most likely be the source of another new disease in the next five years.