How to track down a new virus – and link it to diseas

How to track down a new virus – and link it to disease


How to track down a new virus – and link it to disease
© CyprusMail 2021
By Anthony King
Finding new viruses is easy – the hard part is understanding which ones cause disease, says Dr Lia van der Hoek, a virologist from the Amsterdam UMC, the Netherlands, who discovered a human coronavirus called NL63, in 2003.
She suspects that not all viruses may be harmful and that having a diverse collection of viruses in the human body may even be beneficial, but this is an open question, she says.
You hunt viruses in both humans and animals. What makes viruses so intriguing for you?

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