CORONAVIRUS | Researchers say it is likely virus spread from bats to humans through illegal traffic of pangolins.
The deadly coronavirus outbreak in China could have spread from bats to humans through the illegal traffic of pangolins, the world's only scaly mammals, which are prized in Asia for food and medicine, Chinese researchers said.
"This latest discovery will be of great significance for the prevention and control of the origin ," South China Agricultural University, which led the research, said in a statement on its website. Health experts think it may have originated in bats and then passed to humans, possibly via another species.
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