According to the study, a gene found in some bats can cut the SARS-CoV-2 virus’s production by up to 90%, which may pave the way for novel therapeutic strategies to treat viral illnesses.
Virology
Humans and pigs can contract the virus, which fruit bats carry. Additionally, it can spread directly from person to person by coughing droplets and contaminated food.
HIV-1, like other viruses, lacks the equipment to generate its own proteins and must rely on the host cell to translate its genetic instructions.
Although it is unknown if the current strains of the bovine (cow) H5N1 virus may spread to humans.
Here the investigators infected mice with SARS-CoV-2 and sequenced the genomes of viruses replicating in the brain versus the lung. In the lung, spike protein had a very close structure to the infecting virus.
The results underline the necessity for widespread surveillance as well as the discovery of new SARS-CoV-2 mutations in animals.
US officials announced in late March 2024 that dairy cows in Texas were experiencing an epidemic of the highly pathogenic avian influenza virus or HPAI H5N1.
90% of the adult population is infected with EBV, which often causes no symptoms or sickness.
Biopreparedness and virological surveillance involves studying the causes that favor zoonotic spillover and facilitates human-to-human transmission.
As a zoonotic virus, the Nipah virus (NiV) can spread from animals and people. Fruit bats, often known as flying foxes, are the animals that naturally harbour NiV. Pigs and humans have both been reported to become ill with the Nipah virus.
