[VDU's first blog post!]
German HCoV-EMC-local transmission
A 2nd case of the most recently identified HCoV, HCoV-EMC, reported on ProMED, in Germany. The Robert Koch Institute notes that There is still no evidence of continuous human-to-human transmission.
[VDU's first blog post!]
[VDU's first blog post!]
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