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[INTERVIEW] ‘Mutated pathogens make wildlife-borne diseases like COVID-19 harder to treat’

Mutated pathogens

While the seemingly interminable COVID-19 global pandemic is believed to have started with an endemic disease in bats that was transmitted to humans via a third species of animal, other cases of such zoonotic diseases have become (and are becoming) harder to treat because of mutations within the nuclear structure of the pathogens, according to […]