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Might SARS coronavirus recombine with other human coronaviruses to produce an even more deadly virus?

April 26, 2017coronavirus coronaviruses deadly Human recombine SARS virus

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Might SARS coronavirus recombine with other human coronaviruses to produce an even more deadly virus?

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Recently, the SARS outbreak has made a comeback, and there is speculation that this might be a different form of the coronavirus. Yet, in the past, recombinations of viruses of different groups have never occurred; therefore, a recombination between SARS virus and HCoV is not likely.