Deep in the Chinese wilderness, virologists found something unusual in the blood of people living near a mysterious cave full of bats.
, unearthed the link between SARS and bats for the first time.
Horseshoe bats were one of four bat species studied over a five-year period after Prof Shi’s team returned to the cave for a second study. “In this sense,” Quammem says, “2019-nCoV is novel — and possibly even more dangerous to humans than the other coronaviruses.”
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