More pandemics ahead? Wuhan 'batwoman' says 20 coronaviruses have 'high risk' of human outbreaks
Exciting news! Mint is now on WhatsApp Channels. Subscribe today by clicking the link and stay updated with the latest financial insights! Click here! “It is well known that there were eight humans CoV diseases. In an analysis of the host range, number of virus and year of emerging, we found six of them are in our high-risk viral lists…A particular attention should be paid to alphaCoV1 and betaCoV1.
Both viral species were widely carried by domestic animals or pet animals," reads an excerpt from the research conclusions. ALSO READ: 'Disease X' could be 20 times deadlier than COVID-19, says expert. Top 10 points Shi and her colleagues assessed 40 coronaviruses and their potential to infect humans for the research paper titled 'Assessment and sero-diagnosis for coronaviruses with risk of human spillover'.
In total, the team classified half of the 40 coronavirus species under the category of "highly risky" after evaluating the possibility of human spillover. There is evidence that three more of these caused disease or infected other animal species, and six of them are previously known to have caused diseases that affected people. They classified the CoV species with risk of human spillover into four categories.
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