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It's been one year since COVID-19 stunned the world, but many questions still remain, including where it came from. "Three possibilities: the virus was brought to Wuhan by a human, by animal or by frozen food," said Professor Linfa Wang, Duke University. At this point, most scientists agree the ancestor virus of COVID-19 did come from bats. And experts say that's a result of the human race imposing upon the natural ecosystem. "It's this notion of out moving into places where we really don't need to be," said Professor Stuart Pimm at Duke University. And the experts agree, this is not the fir...

Updated: 9 Mar 2021, 10:43 Invalid Date, "ANIMAL X" could be hiding a deadly virus that could trigger a pandemic worse than the Black Death and kill more than 75million people. Experts have told The Sun Online how unknown viruses which are currently hiding unseen in animals around the world could mutate and cross over to humans. 6 6 Bats are being caught and studied to try and predict the next pandemicCredit: Justin Ng/Linfa Wang With the world currently fighting the Covid pandemic, scientists are in a race against time to find the potential source of the next one. Animals and the viruses ...

March 01, 2021 A researcher with the Institut Pasteur in Cambodia examines a bat during a field mission. Institut Pasteur in Cambodia A freezer cabinet on the ground floor of a Phnom Penh laboratory and an irrigation pipe in a wildlife sanctuary in Thailand are not the most obvious places to look for the origins of the virus that sparked the Covid-19 pandemic . But both have offered clues. Stored away in a freezer at the Institut Pasteur in Cambodia – or Institut Pasteur du Cambodge – was a decade-old bat pathogen that counts as one of the closest known relatives to the Sars-CoV-2 virus n...

Tracing The Origin of Coronavirus In Bats And Pangolins by Pooja Shete on  February 15, 2021 at 12:14 PM Scientists have said that across many parts of Asia, coronaviruses related to SARS-CoV-2 may be circulating in bats. At a wildlife sanctuary in eastern Thailand, a virus that is a close match to the SARS-CoV-2 virus, which causes Covid-19, has been discovered in bats. The scientists have predicted that related coronaviruses may be present in bats across many Asian nations and regions. This discovery extends the area in which related viruses have been found to a distance ...

Researchers from Thailand and Singapore have tracked down COVID-19 related coronaviruses, dubbed SC2r-CoVs, in bats from a cave in Thailand, indicating the broad distribution and genetic diversity of potential ancestor viruses, according to a report published on genomeweb.com.