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SARS-CoV-2 showed the world with devastating clarity the threat undetected viruses can pose to global public health. SpillOver, a new web application developed by scientists at the University of California, Davis, and contributed to by experts from all over the world, ranks the risk of wildlife-to-human spillover for newly-discovered viruses.
SpillOver is the first open-source risk assessment tool that evaluates wildlife viruses to estimate their zoonotic spillover and pandemic potential. It effectively creates a watchlist of newly-discovered viruses to help policymakers and health scientists prioritize them for further characterization, surveillance, and risk-reducing interventions.
The tool is linked to a study published in the journal PNAS, in which the authors identified the most relevant viral, host and environmental risk factors for virus spillover. Then the team ranked the risk from 887 wildlife viruses using data collected from a variety of so
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Heart disease is a killer threat for southern sea otters feasting on domoic acid in their food web, according to a study led by the University of California, Davis.
Harmful Algae, examined the relationship between long-term exposure to domoic acid and fatal heart disease in southern sea otters, a threatened marine mammal. Sea otters are an amazing indicator of what s happening in the coastal environment, not just to other marine animals, but to us, too, especially on the issue of domoic acid, said Christine K. Johnson, director of the EpiCenter for Disease Dynamics in the One Health Institute at the UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine and senior author of the study.
Ocean toxin a threat to sea otters
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A southern sea otter feasts on a clam, which could expose it to domoic acid, increasing its risk of dying with heart disease.
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Domoic acid raises risk of fatal heart disease in warming ocean
Heart disease is a killer threat for southern sea otters feasting on domoic acid in their food web, according to a study led by UC Davis.
, published in the journal Harmful Algae, examined the relationship between long-term exposure to domoic acid and fatal heart disease in southern sea otters, a threatened marine mammal.
China clamps down in hidden hunt for the origins of COVID-19
Internal government documents show that the release of research must be orchestrated under Xi Jinping’s direction with the help of propaganda and public opinion teams to ‘guide publication’
By Dake Kang, Maria Cheng and Sam McNeil / AP, MOJIANG, China
Deep in the lush mountain valleys of southern China lies the entrance to a mine shaft that once harbored bats with the closest known relative of the COVID-19 virus.
The area is of intense scientific interest because it might hold clues to the origins of the coronavirus that has killed more than 1.7 million people worldwide. Yet for scientists and journalists, it has become a black hole of no information because of political sensitivity and secrecy.
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