Title
Science-based facts & knowledge about wild animals, zoos and SARS-CoV-2 virus, 9th edition
Author(s)
Lecu, Alexis; Bertelsen, Mads; Walzer, Chris
Published
2022
Abstract
The COVID-19 is a viral infectious disease (last “d” =disease) transmitted between humans, first described in Wuhan China on the 31st December 2019. As of December 2021, the virus spread globally to more than 192 countries, causing the death of more than five million people worldwide, with infections rising again due to the emergence of highly transmissible variants. The virus name is SARS-COV-2 and it belongs to Coronavirus family. This name was given because of real genetic proximity of this virus with the SARS virus of 2002-2003 outbreak. On the 11th of March 2020, the WHO officially declared it pandemic. One month later, it was also declared as a notifiable disease in animals by O.I.E. as SARS-Cov-2 was found able to infect some domestic and wild species.
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