Covid 19 coronavirus: Piecing together the next pandemic
16 Feb, 2021 10:36 PM
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Dr. Jessica Manning, a public health researcher with the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. Photo / Thomas Cristofoletti, The New York Times
Dr. Jessica Manning, a public health researcher with the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. Photo / Thomas Cristofoletti, The New York Times
New York Times
By: Amos Zeeberg
From a small lab in Cambodia, Dr. Jessica Manning is on the lookout for emerging diseases. Covid-19 arrived in Cambodia a year ago, on January 23, when a Chinese national flew in from Wuhan, China, the city where the illness was first detected, and soon fell sick with a fever. A PCR test to detect the genetic material of SARS-CoV-2, the coronavirus that causes Covid-19, came back positive. With that news, the disease had officially pierced the borders of another nation.
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