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The study also identified increased risks of mortality associated with several causes such as respiratory, circulatory and digestive system disorders; nervous system, endocrine and infectious diseases; cancers; and congenital malformations.

“I could go on there for 15 minutes and I would know what the trending papers in infectious diseases and virology were just by looking at the timeline,” says Emory University virologist Boghuma Titanji.

“His bright smile, infectious laugh and kind heart made you want to be near him,” she wrote Sunday on Instagram.

“Stalin’s purges were worse than any plague or infectious disease,” Zeldovich writes.

Although there have been no confirmed occurrences of human-to-human transmission, each time the virus is transmitted, it has a greater chance of mutating in ways that make it more infectious to humans.