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by beerandt
1979 days ago
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For those not familiar with the geography (like me), the caves where most of these viruses were collected are not near Wuhan, but about 1000 miles away, near [0]Kunming. >[1]In 2004, deep in the wilderness of China's Yunnan province, a group of scientists from the Wuhan Institute of Virology discovered a cave full of wild bats carrying hundreds of SARS-related viruses. >Their work, published in a draft paper in 2005, unearthed the link between SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome) and bats for the first time. >Now the virologist who led that study, Shi Zhengli, has revealed one of the strains found in that cave — the exact location of which is a closely guarded secret — is almost identical to the 2019-nCoV coronavirus which has so far killed at least 1,115 people and infected more than 45,000 worldwide, news.com.au rreports [0]https://nationalpost.com/news/world/cave-full-of-bats-in-chi... [1] https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/coronavirus-mysterious-bat-... |
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