New York, March 13 (Ians) There is an urgent need to build a framework that can help identify likely future viral threats to human health, before the next outbreak takes the world by surprise, according to scientists.
Writing in a Perspective article in the journal Science, two virologists from the Universities of the Ohio State and Colorado, said the scientific community should invest in a four-part research framework to proactively identify animal viruses that might infect humans.
“We are continually going to be exposed to the viruses of animals. Things are never going to change if we stay on the same trajectory,” said Cody Warren, Assistant Professor of Veterinary Biosciences at The Ohio State University.
Instead of just “sequencing viruses in nature”, “experimental studies of animal viruses are going to be invaluable,” Warren said.
Along with Sara Sawyer, professor of molecular, cellular and developmental biology at the University of Colorado Boulder,...
Writing in a Perspective article in the journal Science, two virologists from the Universities of the Ohio State and Colorado, said the scientific community should invest in a four-part research framework to proactively identify animal viruses that might infect humans.
“We are continually going to be exposed to the viruses of animals. Things are never going to change if we stay on the same trajectory,” said Cody Warren, Assistant Professor of Veterinary Biosciences at The Ohio State University.
Instead of just “sequencing viruses in nature”, “experimental studies of animal viruses are going to be invaluable,” Warren said.
Along with Sara Sawyer, professor of molecular, cellular and developmental biology at the University of Colorado Boulder,...
- 3/13/2023
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