Coronavirus: Cats could spread new strains according to an artificial intelligence

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What if cats were vectors of new coronavirus strains?According to a study by British researchers with the help of artificial intelligence, these pets are very permeable to coronavirus.

"Predict mammal hosts in which new coronavirus can develop".This is the title of the study published by scientists from the University of Liverpool in the journal Nature Communications last month.It consists in determining in which species of new strains of coronavirus can develop, details 20 minutes.

Potential host for 65 coronavirus

And the results are likely to have lovers of cats tick up since according to this research, the cat could be a potential host for 65 coronavirus, including SARS-COV-2.Among the other mammals concerned, they found the hedgehog or the rabbit of Garenne.

To reach these conclusions, scientists relied on an artificial intelligence, capable of processing an astronomical amount of data.Researchers have crossed biological elements relating to different types of coronavirus in the machine as well as mammals data.

Being permeable in the virus does not mean catching it

In total, artificial intelligence was able to identify 126 potential hosts for coronavirus.This is much more than what had been observed so far, underlined the authors of the study, since there are "30 times more mammals in which could occur a recombination of the Sars-Cov-2 and 40times more species likely to have at least four forms of coronavirus in them ".

But "that does not mean that you have to stop caressing your cat!" Warned France 24 Maya Wardeh, the main author of the British study.If the animal is potentially very permeable to COVVI-19, nothing indicates that it will necessarily catch the virus.Marcus Blagrove, co -author of the study, stressed that a recombination of coronavirus was not necessarily dangerous for human beings.Some cause only a cold.

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Oui, je veux suivre les réponsesNon, ça ne m'intéresse pas Les commentaires (27)befana34 Il y a 10 mois Le 06/03/2021 à 08:02

Have they thought of the pigeons that pollute our villages?

Adoré Il y a 10 mois Le 05/03/2021 à 12:14

Everything is done to get rid of what is embarrassing.....and disturb....incredible

gg91 Il y a 10 mois Le 05/03/2021 à 10:22

And dogs, and parakeets, and alligators etc and with the conditional, the Martians could exist in an invisible form and contaminate us...

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