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What are coronaviruses?
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Group animal viruses: This a group of viruses that primarily infect animals but with time and close proximity, they are capable of mutating so that they some of them may infect humans as well. A virus consists of a small piece of nucleic acid surrounded by a protein capsule. Viruses cannot survive long outside living cells
Answered 5/18/2020
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