Re: Coronavirus
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Originally Posted by OLD BOY
I was thinking specifically about SARS and MERS. Neither of those have returned since circulating around the UK a few years ago.
In terms of your example, I guess that if later variants of a virus are more deadly and/or more contagious, such variants will take away the hosts on which the original viruses rely.
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There have been some cases of MERS in the U.K. since 2012.
https://publichealthmatters.blog.gov...d-and-treated/
Also, SARS wasn’t contagious until several days after symptoms appeared.
https://www.theweek.co.uk/105436/how...-start-and-end
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