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by ianburrell 2333 days ago
This coronavirus is close to some found in bats and 80% similar to SARS which came from bats through civets. Wouldn’t expect exact strain to be found in wild cause have to mutate to jump to humans. The question is how got to humans from bats since don’t think was direct connection. One paper suggested snakes but others don’t think that is likely.

https://www.wired.com/story/wuhan-coronavirus-snake-flu-theo...