Lafiel on 02 April 2020
| newwil7l said: Eating bats needs to be banned and, offenders should be charged with biological terrorism. How many outbreaks need to happen to get this lesson through people's heads? Bats carry more pathogens than any other species. |
the thing is, while bats are very likely the reservoir host of this disease and many others, they are unlikely to be the host the virus jumped to us from
for SARS it's highly likely that pigs were the host we got infected by, as they traced an infection route back to a pig farm that contained banana-trees infected fruit bats were eating from
edit: assuming SARS-CoV-2 did originate in bats it would for example be super interesting to know whether or not it can even infect the species of bats it came from anymore in it's current human transmissible form
Last edited by Lafiel - on 02 April 2020
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