What origins for COVID-19?
This microscope image shows SARS-CoV-2 emerging on the surface of cells in yellow in an isolated sample from a patient with Covid-19.
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By: Anne Verdaguer
2 min
Viruses from bats, pangolin, or even fabricated from scratch in the laboratory?
The coronavirus, responsible for the Covid-19 disease, feeds extravagant theories, sometimes conspiratorial.
As some seek ways to counter the pandemic by developing vaccines, a WHO mission began a mission to China last Thursday to identify the origin of the virus.
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Other scientists are continuing their research by bringing together their knowledge in genetics, virology and infectious diseases to try to understand how this disease appeared.
What origins for COVID-19?
This is the question of the day.
To discuss it
:
- Marie Holzman, sinologist
- Etienne Decroly
, virologist, specialist in emerging viruses.
Research Director at CNRS in the Architecture and Function of Biological Macromolecules (AFMB) laboratory at the University of Aix-Marseille
- Alexandre Hassanin
, lecturer at Sorbonne University and researcher at the Institute of Systematics, Evolution, Biodiversity of the National Museum of Natural History
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