Name: Viral zoonotic risk is homogenous among taxonomic orders of mammalian and avian reservoir hosts
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Viral zoonotic risk is homogenous among taxonomic orders of mammalian and avian reservoir hosts

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Edited by Nils Chr. Stenseth, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway, and approved March 9, 2020 (received for review November 6, 2019)Identifying whether novel human viruses disproportionately originate from certain animal groups could inform risk-based allocations of research and surveillance effort. Whether such “special reservoirs” exist remains controversial. We show that the proportion of viruses that infect humans varies minimally across reservoir taxonomic orders. Instead, the number of human-infecting viruses increases proportionately to the total number of viruses maintained by each...

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