Earlier this year, I was wondering about amoebic transmission of respiratory viruses and a quick scan of the literature sure made me reluctant to swim in waters affected by untreated sewage. 🧵https://t.co/ouWmU5cAUA I've added another study to the 🧵 ht…
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Another study to add: SARS-CoV-2 surrogate (Phi6) environmental persistence within free-living amoebae (Jan. 2022) https://t.co/WbnjSaxMDp https://t.co/RwSXiEFeAU
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@Harvard2H Hantavirus (and sweating sickness - awesome substack on that). It would be awful if free living amoeba could host SARS-CoV-2; it would be a mammalian extinction event. And that is besides early evidence the virus may be able to replicate in…