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“My work generally tries to show a funny side to our everyday life,” says Norwegian photographer Helge Skodvin, whose latest series A Moveable Beast follows a collection of animal exhibits moving house.
Why fish are immune to coronaviruses
It is (almost) certain that this sea trout won’t catch a coronavirus. (Illustrtion by Erlend A. Lorentzen, virus by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
There are at least two reasons why fish could not have been the source of the virus. Published: 29.01.2021 Updated: 04.02.2021 Author: Erlend Astad Lorentzen
Well, not
immune by definition.
Viruses are picky about which species they infect. But sometimes they do jump from animals to humans. And in rare cases, the virus mutates to a form that can transmit between people.
If the animal market in Wuhan actually was the epicentre of the new coronavirus, this is what could have happened.