Actuality and controversy of zoonosis as the origin of SARS-CoV-2

• Autores: Tello Arquíñego, Johan Neil, Espejo Sotelo, Luis Alejandro
• Formato: artículo
• Fecha de Publicación: 2022
• Institución: Universidad Nacional Federico Villarreal
• Repositorio: Revistas - Universidad Nacional Federico Villarreal
• Lenguaje: español
• OAI Identifier: oai:ojs2.revistas.unfv.edu.pe:article/1337
• Enlace del recurso: https://revistas.unfv.edu.pe/RCV/article/view/1337
• Nivel de acceso: acceso abierto

With this letter, we will try to provide new information regarding the origin of SARS-Cov-2, reviewing information published after volume 8 of your magazine. The Covid 19 pandemic produced by SARSCoV- 2 has produced to date more than 130 million fixes and 2,700,000 deaths globally causing collapse health and economic (Cabezas 2020). In the review article "Zoonotic links of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus", Vol. 8 No. 1 page 68 (Iannacone et al 2020), it is said that this disease has as a background the epidemics of the Syndrome Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) and Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) and in both the source of the virus or reservoir is the bat and its intermediate hosts are the Palm Civet in the case of SARS and the camel in the case of MERS (Ye et al., 2020) and in terms of SARS-CoV-2, it is postulated that its reservoir is the bats of the genus Rhinolophus affinis Horsfield (Zhou et al., 2020).