Bat🦇 coronaviruses: “We found evidence for, in total, from all the sampling we did in China, about 400 new strains of coronaviruses.” That means 400 potential candidates to spark another outbreak.” npr.org/sections/goats…
2) “What we showed was that SARS-related viruses in these bat populations have the potential to go directly into human cells and do not need that extra mutational step [of] infecting another host." In other words, path to sparking new outbreaks is potentially much more direct.”
3) “For example, one of the coronaviruses that the researchers found was a very close genetic match for the SARS virus. So they put it in a petri dish with human cells. The virus succeeded in infecting the cells.” #COVID19
4) “She and her colleagues checked the villagers' blood for signs of recent infections with bat coronaviruses. The team did this again with people in some other rural areas. Each time, says Li, "we found coronaviruses that had already spilled over into the human population."
5) “These were multiple mini-outbreaks that had gone undetected- discovery was a huge red flag: "these SARS-related viruses were jumping into people even if they weren't causing any noticeable disease." Indeed, health authorities simply never picked up on it.”
