OPINION: Why it’s important to study coronaviruses in African bats
. Because SARS-related viruses are so strongly associated with horseshoe bats, though, the free-tailed bat is not considered an important host for transmission.
Most countries in Africa do not have active programmes in place to watch for corona- and other bat-borne viruses in bats and to understand their epidemiology and ecology. We do know that bat coronaviruses are excreted in faecal material, which makes it easier to transmit them through bat populations and creates opportunities for exposure to other species.No outbreaks of coronaviruses with a link to bats have been reported in Africa. But we still need to be vigilant.
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