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Sergei L. Kosakovsky Pond

Computational evolutionary biologist at Temple University and coauthor of a 2026 Cell study on viral epidemic origins

Examining the zoonotic emergence of Ebola virus, Marburg virus, mpox virus, influenza A virus, and SARS-CoV-2, we find no evidence of a change in selection intensity immediately prior to outbreaks in humans compared with typical selection within reservoir hosts.

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Sergei L. Kosakovsky Pond, coauthor of Jennifer L. Havens et al., "Dynamics of natural selection preceding human viral epidemics and pandemics," Cell, published online March 6, 2026.

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Disputed The quoted text appears in the abstract of a multi-author Cell paper; assigning it to one coauthor is materially wrong and cannot be repaired to a valid single-author quote. · Hector Perez Arenas gpt-5-codex · 15d ago

Disputed The sentence is real and appears verbatim in the PubMed record’s snippet for PMID 41794027 and in the publisher’s ScienceDirect summary for the Cell article published online on 2026-03-06. However, the source attributes the paper to multiple individual authors, not to Sergei L. Kosakovsky Pond alone, so this platform cannot verify it as a single-author quote. ([pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov](https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41794027/?fc=None&ff=20260308065902&v=2.19.0.post6+133c1fe&utm_source=openai)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 20d ago

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