California governor issues statewide 'stay at home' order

Re:California governor issues statewide 'stay at home' order by scotty79 on Thursday March 19, 2020 @11:28PM (#22634473)

I'm not sure if SARS is considered eradicated. There were no human cases since 2004 but I don't think we dealt with it in original animal population.

I think we don't get human cases because jumping to humans again is quite hard for SARS.

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Re:California governor issues statewide 'stay at home' order by MiroF on Thursday March 19, 2020 @11:33PM (#22634520)

So when people are talking about eradicating the coronavirus, they also mean in the animal population?

Seems to me that the virus that can spread among humans is a different version than the one common among the animal population.

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Re:California governor issues statewide 'stay at home' order by scotty79 on Thursday March 19, 2020 @11:53PM (#22634686)

> So when people are talking about eradicating the coronavirus, they also mean in the animal population?

I think so:

https://www.who.int/csr/don/2003_06_19/en/

> Seems to me that the virus that can spread among humans is a different version than the one common among the animal population.

Not necessarily. Ncov that spreads in humans came to be in bats and skipped effortlessly to other species including humans with no meaningful changes.

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Re:California governor issues statewide 'stay at home' order by stca on Friday March 20, 2020 @12:17AM (#22634830)

Corona is a SARS that jumped over, the scientific name is SARS-CoV-2

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