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SARS may be mammal-bird merger

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Genetic shuffle might have allowed human infection.

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  1. Stavrinides, J. & Guttman, D. S. Mosiac evolution of the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus. Journal of Virology, 78, 76 - 82, doi:10.1128/JVI.78.1.76-82.2004 (2003).

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