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Noam Ross

Archived pre-2020 human blood samples from Myanmar show 12%(!) seropositivity against a range of SARS-like coronaviruses not previously known to infect humans, with over 30% among people who work forest extractive industries or handle .

ijidonline.com/article/S1201-9

Screen shot from linked page, showing title, authors, and abstract of article. "Exposure to diverse sarbecoviruses indicates frequent zoonotic spillover in human communities interacting with wildlife"
#OneHealth#EpiVerse#OpenAccess
Mar 06, 2023, 04:27 PM·Public·Web
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Noam Ross

☝️The people most likely to be exposed to these viruses tend to live in communities and work in sectors where healthcare resources and economic or even food options are limited. In this case, extractive industry workers are largely migrant workers in seasonal camps doing hand and elephant-powered logging. One of the key strategies in reducing spillover risk is improving their health and economic security ecoevo.social/@noamross/109937

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Yoni

@noamross sounds like a very scientific way to explain the fuck around to find out ratio

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