'The hope is we're not caught off guard' again, B.C. researcher says of discovery of 9 new coronavirus species

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Published Thursday, January 27, 2022
CTV News

A team of researchers led by a British Columbia university has uncovered several new species of coronavirus, some of which were found in unexpected places such as animal dung.

The discoveries, outlined in a news release Wednesday from the University of British Columbia, were made by a former UBC post-doctoral research fellow, who led an international team in an analysis of riboneucleic acid (RNA) sequencing data.

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