Covid warning as Omicron variant 'can bind' to rats sparking horror plague fears

“Hint to emergence or simply just a byproduct of (ACE2) receptor optimization/modulation?”

Coronaviruses are a zoonotic family of pathogens, meaning they infect both humans and animals alike.

And the coronavirus that causes COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2) is believed to have infected humans after jumping from an animal host in late 2019 in China.

Rodents have also been carriers of plague and disease in the past, responsible for some of the worst pandemics to hit the globe.

Most infamously, fleas carried by rodents are believed to have been responsible for spreading the bubonic plague, also known as the Black Death, in 1346.

source: express.co.uk