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Ancient Viral epidemic
First coronavirus outbreak was in 2002 in China, infected 8,000 and killed 800.
2006 was MERS, infected 2,400 and killed 850
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East Asians show a strong enrichment for these VIPS to covid, this isn't present in other populations
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HIV also jumped species and has multiple times before to humans, similar in nature to coronaviruses
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Citation: Souilmi Y, Lauterbur ME, Tobler R, Krogan NJ, Alexandrov K, Enard D. 2021. An ancient viral epidemic involving host coronavirus interacting genes more than 20,000 years ago in east asia. Current biology. 31:1-11.
viruses evolve and along with this human genomes have evolved leaking the markers on our genes, as both virus and human genes try to outcompete one another
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