Coronavirus doctors warned to protect eyes as researchers narrow down animal host

[icymist]

Medical experts have warned the coronavirus can spread through an infected person’s eyes as scientists believe they have narrowed down the animal host of the disease.

Medical experts have warned the coronavirus can spread through the eyes and people – especially doctors – aren’t doing enough to protect themselves.

According to a report in The Lancet, a peer-reviewed medical journal, Chinese pneumonia expert Guangfa Wang was infected by the 2019-nCoV virus while visiting Wuhan last month.

...SCIENTISTS BLAME ENDANGERED ANIMAL

The report comes as Chinese scientists say the endangered pangolin may have been the animal that facilitated the spread of the virus across China.

...After testing more than 1,000 samples from wild animals, scientists from the university found the genome sequences of viruses found on pangolins to be 99 per cent identical to those on coronavirus patients, the official Xinhua news agency reported.

But James Wood, a veterinary medicine professor at the University of Cambridge, said the research was “not sufficient”.

The results could have been caused by “contamination from a highly infected environment”, he said.
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[Doremus]

1. Maybe they'll leave pangolins alone now. nt

[jeffreyi]

2. Turn about is fair play.