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Viral zoonotic risk is homogenous among taxonomic orders of mammalian and avian reservoir hosts
13 Apr 2020
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The notion that certain animal groups disproportionately maintain and transmit viruses to humans due to broad-scale differences in ecology, life history, and physiology currently influences global health surveillance and research in disease ecology, virology, and immunology. To directly test whether such "special reservoirs" of zoonoses exist, we used literature searches to construct the largest existing dataset...
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