The coronavirus epidemic we are facing would not be the first, is the conclusion of a study published in the scientific journal Current Biology.
The team found evidence of a coronavirus epidemic that erupted more than 20,000 years ago in East Asia.
In fact, in the study, researchers studied the genomes of more than 2,500 people in 26 different populations around the world.
They identified the earliest interaction of the human genome with coronaviruses, which left genetic fingerprints on the DNA of modern people in East Asia.
The conclusion of the study is that the disease appeared separately between different regions and spread to East Asia as an epidemic.
How did people go through the epidemic at that time? Most likely, a mutation would have helped people survive.
However, it is not clear to scientists how people went through the epidemic.
On the one hand, because it was not clear if it was something seasonal like the flu, or continuous – such as the Covid-19 pandemic – that continues to spread and infect the globe.
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