On December 31, 2019, Chinese authorities reported a cluster of pneumonia cases in Wuhan, China, most of which included patients whoreported exposure to a seafood market selling live animals. Emergence of a new pathogenic zoonotic coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) was suspected. How can we face the challenges with the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 outbreak?
Read the editorial of Pr Sylvie van der Werf and Dr Cécile Peltékian here :
https://bo.jle.com/library/contenu/VIR/Edito-VIRO-COVID19-EN.pdf
Pr Sylvie van der Werf heads the National Reference Center for Respiratory Viruses at the Institut Pasteur.
This paper was published in the journal Virologie in March 2020 (Virologie, Vol 24, supplément, mars-avril 2020).