Professor James L. Van Etten of the University of Nebraska, who was a member of the research team, told Newsweek that little is currently known about how the virus could be transmitted to humans in such abundance, but that they had “no reason to believe that [the viruses] are contagious among people or animals”. Van Etten said that the team has yet to identify any potential indicators of the virus’s presence in humans. “My best guess is that these viruses may infect another microorganism besides the algae that we have been studying... This other microorganism may be the way that the virus gets into the throat,” he added.
Posted on: Mon, 17 Nov 2014 07:31:02 +0000
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