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Coronavirus has been around for 25,000 years; it is not breaking news
BY MICHAEL THOMAS
Humans have been fighting viruses for a very long time and surviving them too.
An ancient coronavirus may have infected the ancestors of people living in modern-day East Asia starting 25,000 years ago and for millennia afterward, according to a new study.
“There have always been viruses infecting human populations,” said senior study author David Enard, an assistant professor of ecology and evolution at the University of Arizona. “Viruses are really one of the main drivers of natural selection in human genomes.”
This happens because genes that increase people’s chances of surviving pathogens are more likely to be passed on to new generations.
By using present-day tools, researchers can detect the fingerprints of these ancient pathogens by pinpointing how they drove natural selection in the DNA of people living today. This type of information could provide important insight to help predict future pandemics, Enard told Live Science. “It is almost always true that things that occurred often in the past are more likely to occur again in the future.”
Utilizing information available in a public database, Enard and his team analyzed the genomes from 2,504 people across twenty-six different human populations around the world. The results, which have not yet been peer-reviewed, were posted January 13th, 2021 to the preprint database bioRxiv, and the study is in the process of being reviewed for publication in a scientific journal.
When coronaviruses gets inside human cells, they overtake the cells’ machinery in order to replicate. That means that a virus’ success depends on its interactions with hundreds of different human proteins.
The researchers also found that in people of East Asian background, certain genes known to interact with coronaviruses had been selected for. In other words, over time, certain variants appeared more regularly than would be expected by chance. This set of mutations likely helped the ancestors of this population become more able to fight off the ancient virus by altering how much of these proteins were made by cells.
This research discovered that gene variants that coded for 42 of the 420 proteins they analyzed started to increase in frequency around 25,000 years ago. The spread of advantageous variants continued until about 5,000 years ago, suggesting that the ancient virus continued to threaten these populations for a long time.
It is interesting that some doctors who have been ignored by mainstream media, and ostracized by popular social platforms have been saying this same thing for more than a year now. This virus is “nothing new” but just another annual one.
This survey leaves one to wonder if the governments – who keep perpetrating the one-track narrative – will rise up and try to silence the people whose research uncovered this.
Doctor after doctor from: Dr Rashid Buttar, Dr Stella Emmanuel, and a host of doctors named “WDA World Doctors Alliance” are now trying to make sure that whoever is behind this coronavirus pandemic, stands trial for crimes against humanity.
It is important to note that “You can fool some people sometimes, but you can’t fool all the people all the time.”