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The Global Virome Project

Expanded Viral Discovery can Improve Mitigation

Dennis Carroll, Peter Daszak, Nathan D. Wolfe, George F. Gao, Carlos M. Morel, Subhash Morzaria, Ariel Pablos-Méndez, Oyewale Tomori and Jonna A. K. Mazet
Science, 2018
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What you don’t know can kill you. Case in point: Deadly pathogens like HIV and Ebola were once viruses infecting only wild animals, of which humans were blissfully unaware. That’s why researcher Dennis Carroll and his colleagues lay out their rationale for the launch of the Global Virome Project (GVP), an ambitious billion-dollar plan to identify hundreds of thousands of potentially pandemic viruses in their animal hosts, before the next outbreak. getAbstract recommends this article to anyone who needs reassurance that viral experts are ready to step up the fight against pandemic diseases.

Take-Aways

  • The vast majority of potentially deadly zoonotic viruses have not yet been discovered.
  • The goal of the Global Virome Project (GVP) is to identify dangerous zoonotic viruses in their animal hosts before they infect their first human host.
  • A pilot program started in 2009 uncovered 1,000 viruses with the characteristics of pandemic viruses.

About the Authors

Dennis Carroll, Peter Daszak, Nathan D. Wolfe, George F. Gao, Carlos M. Morel, Subhash Morzaria, Ariel Pablos-Méndez, Oyewale Tomori and Jonna A.K. Mazet are an international team of researchers working for the Global Virome Project. 

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