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Article content For the past year, Canadians have been asked to follow unprecedented safety measures to slow the spread of the COVID-19 virus. Health experts asked people with symptoms to self-isolate in their own homes, and the rest of the public began to socially distance themselves from friends, family and strangers on the street. These actions might seem jarring to some accustomed to unrestricted social contact, but according to a new review published in Science, other animals have been self-isolating and social-distancing for years to fight against infectious diseases. We apologize, but ...

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Scientists believe covid-19 may have had its roots in a community of horseshoe bats in southeastern china. these particular bats represent a very small subset of horseshoe bats all named for the shape of their noses. there are actually dozens of varieties of horseshoe bats living in a number places, including the temperate and tropical regions of central europe, africa and asia. in fact, there's incredible diversity among bat species. bats can be found living all around the world, on every continent except antarctica. however, the diversity and unique abilities of bats is also what makes them ...

There was a match. its official name became sars cov 2. the virus that calls covid-19. called covid-19 because it emerged in 2019. the new coronavirus was 96.2% similar to a virus taken from a horseshoe bat in 2013. so what does that mean exactly? >> well, 96% is a different virus. so it's a bit like the difference between us and chimpanzees. a different species of virus. but what it tells us, where the virus probably came from. it means that sars covid 2 probably came from bats, and probably in southern china. >> wuhan is 1,000 miles away from the southern subtropical regions of hunan provinc...

In the last 20 years, some of the deadliest virus outbreaks have come from bats. sars, marburg, ebola. so what is it about these creatures and the way they spread pathogens that can be so dangerous? >> the fact that bats are carrying viruses is not in and of itself extraordinary. every animal has its normal suite of viruses and bacteria that it normally carries. people do as well. we carry viruses, we carry bacteria, the majority of which are benign or beneficial, some of which cause disease. it's the fact that bats do tend to carry a higher proportion of viruses that have the ability to infec...