Rubella Virus Relatives Found in Diverse Animal Species

One of the hallmarks of the current coronavirus pandemic, caused by SARS-Cov-2, is its zoonotic origins.  The virus is thought to have risen in bats and "jumped" to humans, and despite conspiracy theories of intentional human engineering (reminiscent of Soviet-backed propaganda in Africa in the 1980's that HIV/AIDS was produced in a laboratory in the U.S. as a way to reduce the African population) such transfer of disease-causing microorganisms from animals to humans is not so rare.  Influenza,...
By: McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

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