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Animal reservoirs—where the next SARS-CoV-2 variant could arise
… was among the first animals known to have contracted the virus from a human, likely a caretaker. Some animals … pandemic, Holmes and others told JAMA. Interspecies transmission can produce new animal reservoirs where the … might arise. Her team has developed a machine learning model to predict the most spillover-susceptible species. The …
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How Lyme disease became unstoppable
… illnesses,” he noted, including babesiosis, the Heartland virus disease, the Bourbon virus disease, anaplasmosis, … north. And as Ostfeld has stated in interviews with other publications, it is likely doing the same for the … they are developing mRNA vaccines that hamper bacterial transmission and also trigger an intense skin reaction to …
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Machine learning IDs mammal species with the potential to spread SARS-CoV-2
… Back and forth transmission of SARS-CoV-2 between people and other mammals … this obstacle, the team developed a machine learning model that combined data on the biological traits of 5,400 … of Ecosystem Studies, comments, “SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, originated in an animal before …
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Dangerous misunderstandings
… their infection without passing it on to anyone else. In epidemiological terms, we would have reduced R t , the effective reproduction number [ 1 ] of the virus, to zero, or R t = 0. But in reality, we’re … means that what we’re doing is working. We’re reducing transmission through hygiene, social distancing, and …
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The threat nobody is talking about? Covid spillback
… The Covid-19 pandemic most likely started when a virus jumped from an animal into a human. Now scientists are … One of the biggest concerns is that Sars-CoV-2 transmission among animals could encourage the virus to … Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies, created a computer model which predicted the likelihood that different …
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The Search for Animals That Could Carry the Next Deadly Virus
The Search for Animals That Could Carry the Next Deadly Virus Scientists are finding new ways to … 6,000. Some of the most robust data involved ray-finned fishes, which weren’t considered core to predicting future coronavirus pandemics, given what is known about SARS-CoV-2 transmission. So, they also scraped information from …
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The more we lose biodiversity, the worse will be the spread of infectious diseases
… Do biodiversity losses aggravate transmission of infectious diseases spread by animals to … between tick and white-footed mouse. The West Nile Virus is a mosquito-borne disease in which the primary … sciences, Emory University, has developed a multi-host model to explore how the pathogen transmission dynamics …
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Climate change is pushing the American redstart’s breeding range southward
… breeding range southward The story behind a model that helped support this counterintuitive discovery. … West Nile Virus , … sets to make this surprising discovery. Among them was a model that Cary Institute disease ecologist Shannon LaDeau …
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New study identifies the best areas for rewilding European bison
… environmental change and hunting by humans were the main drivers, according to the study, published Tuesday in the … and ancient DNA were used to independently test the model’s accuracy. Researchers ran 55,000 different … bison simulation code into new software that models disease transmission in wildlife. “I literally have my bison code …
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Cary Institute partners on $3M study on COVID-19 variants that could emerge from wildlife
… may act as reservoirs, offering new opportunities for the virus to mutate and spill back into people. The omicron … paradigm for how society monitors and manages SARS-CoV-2 transmission in animals, said Kramer. The project is … AI technologies, including generative AI and foundation models,” said Das. “Ultimately, we hope this work can …
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