Zoonotic Diseases And Why COVID-19 Is A Matter Of Concern

As humanity gets ready for the unfolding of 2020, a team of researchers has uncovered the discovery of a novel (new and unidentified) coronavirus emerging in Wuhan, China near the end of December 2019.

Tracing the origins of the virus led researchers to conclude that patient-zero might have contracted the virus from Hua Nan seafood and wet animal wholesale market.

It is then given the provisional name (a name to identify new coronaviruses before a permanent name is given) 2019-nCoV which stands for 2019-novel CoronaVirus.

From there, the virus has spread like wildfire in other Chinese provinces, as well as in other …read more