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#RaccoonDog & #SARSCoV2: What's the link? Often when trying to understand emerging viruses, looking at another spillover event provides important insights. #SARSCoV2 & SARSCoV1 (cause of 2002/2003 epidemic) are very similar viruses (same species): SARS1 may hold some clues 1/
Upon investigating the origin of #SARSCoV1, animals sold in wet markets of outbreak regions were tested. Most work was done on civet cats but there were surprising results on raccoon dogs as well: All raccoons dogs tested on markets were SARS1 positive incl. virus isolation 2/
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