Wednesday 29 January 2020

PRO/AH/EDR> Novel coronavirus (22): reservoir suggested, bats

Coronavirus -- China
If previous outbreaks of coronavirus are any indication, the Wuhan strain that is now spreading may eventually be traced back to bats.
Dr Peter Daszak, president of EcoHealth Alliance, who has been working in China for 15 years studying diseases that jump from animals to people, said, "We don't know the source yet, but there's pretty strong evidence that this is a bat origin coronavirus." He said, "It's probably going to be the Chinese horseshoe bat," a common species that weighs up to an

Read more about it at HealthMap Global Disease Alerts via http://healthmap.org/ln.php?6930718&promed&0

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