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/#LATEST on #WuhanPneumonia:
- 1,363 cases confirmed in China, 41 dead
- 1st case reported in Qinghai, leaving only #Tibet free of #nCoV2019 cases
- 28 provincial regions launched level-1 emergency response
- Overseas confirmed cases update:
1 more in France
4 in Australia
originally posted by: IAMTAT
a reply to: ketsuko
We should be able to contain this until a vax is found...but it will likely result in quite a few deaths.
All flights and travelers from China should be denied entry to the US until this is under control.
Full-length genome sequences were obtained from five patients at the early stage of the outbreak. They are almost identical to each other and share 79.5% sequence identify to SARS-CoV. Furthermore, it was found that nCoV-2019 is 96% identical at the whole genome level to a bat coronavirus.
Importantly, we have confirmed that this novel CoV uses the same cell entry receptor, ACE2, as SARS-CoV.
Apparently the Chinese military obtained this exact virus from bats in 2018. Where would the keep such samples? A level 4 Bio Lab maybe? And where would that be?
originally posted by: weirdguy
This report suggests that Ncov2019 is from bats. The report has not been peer reviewed at this time, but doesn't mean that it isn't accurate.
Full-length genome sequences were obtained from five patients at the early stage of the outbreak. They are almost identical to each other and share 79.5% sequence identify to SARS-CoV. Furthermore, it was found that nCoV-2019 is 96% identical at the whole genome level to a bat coronavirus.
Importantly, we have confirmed that this novel CoV uses the same cell entry receptor, ACE2, as SARS-CoV.
www.biorxiv.org...
It is starting to look like a SARS mutation.
originally posted by: weirdguy
a reply to: ARM1968
I don't believe that it is a bio warfare origin. It seems to come from bats, just like the SARS virus.
originally posted by: weirdguy
This report suggests that Ncov2019 is from bats. The report has not been peer reviewed at this time, but doesn't mean that it isn't accurate.
Full-length genome sequences were obtained from five patients at the early stage of the outbreak. They are almost identical to each other and share 79.5% sequence identify to SARS-CoV. Furthermore, it was found that nCoV-2019 is 96% identical at the whole genome level to a bat coronavirus.
Importantly, we have confirmed that this novel CoV uses the same cell entry receptor, ACE2, as SARS-CoV.
www.biorxiv.org...
It is starting to look like a SARS mutation.
A phylogenetic tree has been built using the 15 available whole genome sequence of 2019-nCoV and 12 whole genome sequences highly similar sequences available in gene bank (5 from SARS, 2 from MERS and 5 from Bat SARS-like Coronavirus).
From these results, 2019nCoV could be considered a coronavirus distinct from SARS virus, probably transmitted from bats or another host where mutations conferred upon it the ability to infect humans.
originally posted by: texasgirl
originally posted by: weirdguy
a reply to: ARM1968
I don't believe that it is a bio warfare origin. It seems to come from bats, just like the SARS virus.
There's still another unidentified animal in this virus. Originally scientists thought it was from snakes but other scientists don't believe that. They also don't think it's from just bats. So we still don't know exactly where it came from.
originally posted by: texasgirl
originally posted by: weirdguy
a reply to: ARM1968
I don't believe that it is a bio warfare origin. It seems to come from bats, just like the SARS virus.
There's still another unidentified animal in this virus. Originally scientists thought it was from snakes but other scientists don't believe that. They also don't think it's from just bats. So we still don't know exactly where it came from.
originally posted by: weirdguy
originally posted by: texasgirl
originally posted by: weirdguy
a reply to: ARM1968
I don't believe that it is a bio warfare origin. It seems to come from bats, just like the SARS virus.
There's still another unidentified animal in this virus. Originally scientists thought it was from snakes but other scientists don't believe that. They also don't think it's from just bats. So we still don't know exactly where it came from.
The virus DNA sequence is 96% identical to bat related coronavirus according to the report.
In this report, we introduced the VHP (Virus Host Prediction) to predict the potential hosts of viruses using deep learning algorithm.
Based on our prediction, compared to the Coronaviruses infecting other vertebrates, bat coronaviruses are assigned with more similar infectivity patterns with 2019-nCoVs. Furthermore, by comparing the infectivity patterns of all viruses hosted on vertebrates, we found mink viruses show a closer infectivity pattern to 2019-nCov.
originally posted by: texasgirl
originally posted by: weirdguy
originally posted by: texasgirl
originally posted by: weirdguy
a reply to: ARM1968
I don't believe that it is a bio warfare origin. It seems to come from bats, just like the SARS virus.
There's still another unidentified animal in this virus. Originally scientists thought it was from snakes but other scientists don't believe that. They also don't think it's from just bats. So we still don't know exactly where it came from.
The virus DNA sequence is 96% identical to bat related coronavirus according to the report.
Interesting. There's a vaccine for SARS that was never used. Wonder if they'll start trials on it.