LONDON |
(Reuters) - Genetic analysis of samples of the deadly MERS virus that
has killed 58 people in the Middle East and Europe shows the disease has
jumped from animals to humans several times, scientists said on Friday.-snip-
After conducting genome sequencing studies of the virus - from the same coronavirus family as the one that caused SARS a decade ago, British and Saudi researchers found several infection transmission chains and said they painted a picture of what they called lively "pathogenic chatter" between species.
"Our findings suggest that different lineages of the virus have originated from the virus jumping across to humans from an animal source a number of times," said Paul Kellam, a professor of viral pathogenesis at Britain's Sanger Institute and University College London (UCL), who led the research.
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