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Prevalence of IgG Antibody to SARS-Associated Coronavirus in Animal Traders --- Guangdong Province, China, 2003
Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) was identified in 2003 as an infectious disease caused by the SARS-associated coronavirus (SARS-CoV), a member of the coronavirus family not observed previously in humans (1,2). Because its sequence data differ from...

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Prevalence of IgG Antibody to SARS-Associated Coronavirus in Animal Traders --- Guangdong Province, China, 2003

Aug 24 at 1:36pmWeb
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It would be interesting to know how many of those animal species have their own sarbecoviruses vs bat spillovers. Civets #1 is as expected, but pig, hare, and pheasant, too? And those before cats? For the "Wild Boar" -- I wonder how many are truly harvested from nature and how many are farm raised.
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Serological Evidence of Bat SARS-Related Coronavirus Infection in Humans, China
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6178078/
Virol Sin. 2018 Feb; 33(1): 104–107.
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