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The Recent Outbreaks Signifies How Evolution Drives The Tree Of Life

Updated: Aug 12, 2020

 

The coronavirus virus that started in China now spreads throughout the world. After the COVID-19, bubonic plague, and hantavirus comes to the bunyavirus. These viruses already exist and had emerged earlier, what makes it new is the strain. For example, the Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) or camel flu outbreaks in 2012, 2015 and 2018, caused by the family of virus called Coronaviridae, and the same also can bring illness as such COVID-19. Similarly, Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) broke out in 2002. Recently, 37 people in East China's Jiangsu Province were found positive for novel bunyavirus, the causative agent for Severe Fever with Thrombocytopenia Syndrome (SFTS). The first discovery of novel bunyavirus was in 2009, China, The Country of Viral Outbreaks. The disease generally spreads by ticks and transmitted via blood, respiratory tract, and wounds. But experts warned of person to person transmission. Like COVID-19, older people are at higher risk and no vaccine till now in both cases. However, Russia recently became the first country to approve a coronavirus vaccine. The vaccine named as "Sputnik V" after the Soviet-era satellite.

Besides, California traced of a salmonella outbreak and reported infections in more than 900 people in the United States and Canada. The source of contamination detected is red onions. The illness, salmonellosis, caused by the bacterium Salmonella, can put those people at higher risk of developing severe complications, who have weaker immune systems. According to a study conducted in 2009, found that 14% of broiler chickens at grocery stores contains Salmonella. The recent outbreak caused by the new strain of salmonella named as Salmonella Newport. Therefore, how evolution drives the tree of life is yet to be learned.


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