IN THE FIELD of epidemiology, a “spillover” is a virus that has made the leap from one host species to another. The spillovers of most concern to people are those from other animals to. These may then go on to create “zoonotic” human diseases—of which covid-19 is believed to be one .
These, though, are reactive approaches. A proactive one would try to establish which species are at greatest risk of becoming reservoirs for SARS-CoV-2 before they actually do so. That would permit the monitoring of threats before they got out of hand. And, as she reports this week in the, Barbara Han of the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies, an independent environmental-research organisation based in Millbrook, New York, thinks she has worked out a way to achieve this.
The researchers studied everything they could—from breadth of diet, metabolic rate and age of sexual maturity to litter size, lifespan, geographical range and phylogenetic relationships—about more than 5,000 mammals for which little to no ACE2-receptor information was available. This enormous database completed, they fed the outcome into a machine-learning system that had been trained on the characteristics of the 142 species they had already examined.
Stop killing wild animals for nothing when there are tons of vaccines already. Especially for 'AAA' States. What happened in Denmark was genocide. People shouldn't be allowed to put the other's lives in danger. Living in a Society implies some obligations but's taken for free.
“hidey-holes” is making this sound a lot cuter than it actually is
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