“If someone is not convinced zero Covid is impossible, this virus will always have sufficient guests available and there are no restrictions on its pathogenicity”. This was underlined by the biologist Enrico Bucci, adjunct professor of the Temple University of Philadelphia, calling into question the risks associated with coronavirus infections in animals, the possible mutations and then the return to humans. “Green monkey; clawless Asian otter; reddish vole; beaver; binturong; Canadian lynx; cat; coatimundi; white plumed marmoset; puma; cynomolgus macaque; dog; spotted peromiscus; skunk; fisher cat; flying foxes; golden hamster; gorilla ; baboon; hippopotamus; spotted hyena; lion; tiger; mink; tupaia; hare; raccoon dog; rendered macaque; snow leopard; Asiatic pangolin; white-tailed deer “, Bucci lists, adding as this list” of animals demonstrably capable to be infected with Sars-CoV-2 is probably still partial. But in some of them the evolution of mutations has been demonstrated and in many the development of symptomatic disease “.
“For the mink, the hamster and the white-tailed deer, it has been shown that the virus, once infected a population, changes, and is then able to reinfect humans”, warns the biologist.
Bucci makes some considerations: “At the beginning of the pandemic, the Asian components of the list, including some sold at the Wuhan market, may well have functioned as intermediate hosts, even more different species and also considering that the infection may also have started. directly from bats, in which viruses very similar to Sars-CoV-2 infectious for humans have been found – he highlights – The ‘zero Covid’ goal is impossible, and that is why it is necessary to insist in the search for broad-spectrum vaccines ” . The biologist then underlines how “it should be clear, at this point, why we speak of ‘One Health’: our health is not independent from the rest of the inhabitants of this planet”. And then he launches an appeal: “Shall we stop breeding fur animals?”.
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