COVID-19 is more widespread in animals

than we thought
Source: National Geographic.

Think of – think about.

But it’s much more than that – showing that what people seem to see is just a part of
something bigger.
Both captive and wild – both animals that are under people’s control and those in the wild.
Infrequent – rare.
Receptor – an organ or cell able to respond to light, heat, or other external stimulus and
transmit a signal to a sensory nerve.
Regulating blood pressure – maintain the blood pressure to help the human body work
properly.
Vertebrate species – animals that have a backbone and a skeleton.
Virologist – a scientist who studies viruses and the diseases that they cause
Susceptible – open to, vulnerable to.
Vulnerability – the quality or state of being exposed to the possibility of being attacked or
harmed, either physically or emotionally.
Aside from the previously listed (animals) – in addition to.
Probable – possible.
Which are indicative of – which are signs of.
Exposed to – open to.
This question has yet to be answered – there is still no answer to this question, and the
search continues.
New reservoirs for the virus – reservoir in this case can be understood as a population,
tissue, etc., which is chronically infested with the causative agent of a disease and can act
as a source of further infection.
Panzootic – the animal version of an epidemic.
It was long thought – for a long time, people thought that.