Ah, Benny's parents, thanks for coming.

Hiya.

So, Benny has really blossomed this term.

You're telling me, he outgrew his bike. We sold it, on eBay.

Oh, that's not quite what I meant.

It's free to sell on there?

Free to sell?

Easy too. Sold Benny's bike, your guitar, my jacket.

You sold my guitar?

Shall we talk about Benning?

When it's this easy to sell for free, you can't help but say when it's eBay.

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Welcome to another in our series of coronavirus episodes of Scientific American Science Talk, posted on March 18th, 2020. I'm Steve Merski. In 2012,

David Quaman published the book Spillover, Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic.

On his website back then, he wrote, The next big and murderous human pandemic will be caused by a new disease, new to humans anyway.

The bug that's responsible will be strange, unfamiliar, but it won't come from outer space.

Odds are that the killer pathogen, most likely a virus, will spill over into humans from a non-human animal.

We're now living in that situation with the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, which causes the

condition COVID-19. This is the seventh coronavirus known to infect humans. Research published

March 17th, 2020 in the journal Nature Medicine,

looked at the genome of the virus. Two possibilities emerged from that analysis. In the first,

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