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Related: About this forumSARS-CoV-2 relative found lurking in frozen bats from Cambodia
By Nicoletta Lanese - Staff Writer 13 hours ago
For the first time, close relatives of the novel coronavirus have been found outside China.
Scientists discovered the two viruses in frozen bats and bat droppings stored in Cambodian and Japanese laboratories, Nature News & Comment reported.
As SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, continues to circulate worldwide, scientists have never stopped hunting for the pathogen's point of origin. Like its cousin SARS-CoV, which caused outbreaks of severe acute respiratory syndrome in the early 2000s, SARS-CoV-2 likely originated in horseshoe bats (genus Rhinolophus); but some evidence suggests that the virus may have passed through another animal before infecting humans.
By hunting for closely related coronaviruses, scientists can help solve the mystery of how SARS-CoV-2 jumped from bats to people, triggering the current pandemic. Now, scientists have uncovered such a virus in Cambodia, virologists told Nature News.
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https://www.livescience.com/related-coronaviruses-cambodia-japan.html
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SARS-CoV-2 relative found lurking in frozen bats from Cambodia (Original Post)
Judi Lynn
Nov 2020
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Liberty Belle
(9,528 posts)1. So maybe it wasn't a "Chinese virus" as Trump claimed.
SeattleVet
(5,468 posts)2. Frozen bats from Cambodia? Are they going to recall them?
I haven't seen any notices posted on the freezers at the supermarket near me yet.
The Cambodian ones were usually the best, for the price. All free-range, and never been contaminated with any antibiotics.
If these are off the market we'll all probably have to settle for the slightly-lesser-quality Laotian bats.