Today I read an article published very recently about the “Coronavirus infections and immune responses” when I stumbled across a reference from 2007: “Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus as an Agent of Emerging and Reemerging Infection“.

The remarkable text in the manuscript is the prediction of new variants of SARS-CoV and the call to be prepared for new outbreaks.

“SHOULD WE BE READY FOR THE REEMERGENCE OF SARS? [….] The presence of a large reservoir of SARS-CoV-like viruses in horseshoe bats, together with the culture of eating exotic mammals in southern China, is a time bomb. The possibility of the reemergence of SARS and other novel viruses from animals or laboratories and therefore the need for preparedness should not be ignored.”

Will we learn from this?