Bats Carry Many Viruses. So Why Don't They Get Sick?
The winged mammal has a unique ability to carry viruses and not get sick from them. This tolerance may be a unique adaptation to flying.
Like Ebola virus in Africa and the Nipah virus in Asia, the new coronavirus — 2019-nCoV — appears to have originated in bats.
Chinese researchers took samples of the coronavirus from patients in Wuhan, the city in central China where the outbreak was first detected.
They compared the genetic sequence of the new coronavirus — 2019-nCoV — to a library of known viruses and found a 96% match with a coronavirus found in horseshoe bats in southwest China. The findings were published in a study in Nature this week.
"They're too close in terms of, a virologist at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galvestonwho was not affiliated with the study.
