Tag: Viruses
In a groundbreaking local study, scientists at Columbia University have conducted a survey of viruses carried by the rats of Manhattan. They tested the feces, urine, blood and tissue samples of 133 rodents. What they found was “shocking and surprising” even to pathogen experts. Not only did the rats carry scores of known food-borne illnesses (like […]
Scientists at the Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health have put together an estimate of the total number of mammal viruses in the world. That number currently stands at 320,000. There are the global seed banks (currently 6 million varieties stored in 1,300 banks), the human genome, and now, viruses have begun to enter the big data […]
