Most pandemic viruses show little adaptation before infecting humans

Ștefania Anghel

University of California - San Diego Mar 9 2026 A new University of California San Diego study published in Cell challenges a long-standing assumption about how animal viruses become capable of sparking human epidemics and pandemics. Using a phylogenetic, genome-wide analysis across multiple viral families, researchers report that most zoonotic viruses - infectious pathogens that spread from animals to humans, including the cause of COVID-19 - do not show evidence of special evolutionary

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