Professor Christine K Johnson

School of Veterinary Medicine, Medicine and Epidemiology, University of California Davis

Health & Medicine

Don’t blame the pangolin (or any other animal) for COVID-19

A new analysis of 139 instances where an animal virus has spread to humans shows these outbreaks are a human problem with a human cause

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