Bats or snakes? Understanding the animals behind the Covid-19 virus.
Bats appear to be able to co-exist with many viruses without falling ill themselves, These viruses sometimes make their way into humans, causing illness and death. — Filepic
A theory was published in a Chinese paper by a group of Chinese scientists, claiming that the coronavirus was spread by snakes.Other scientists don’t believe this, however. An intermediate host? You mean, another possible animal that passes on the coronavirus to humans from bats?So the “snake flu” group of scientists believe that bats transmitted the coronavirus to an intermediate host, snakes.They studied the genetic sequencing of 2019-nCoV and found an overlap between it and the Chinese cobra, as well as the many-banded krait.
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