UC-San Diego: Bat Virus Evolution Suggests Wildlife Trade Sparked COVID-19 Virus Emergence in Humans
May 07, 2025
May 07, 2025
LA JOLLA, California, May 7 -- The University of California San Diego campus issued the following news:
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Bat Virus Evolution Suggests Wildlife Trade Sparked COVID-19 Virus Emergence in Humans
Study finds that SARS-CoV-2 arrived in Wuhan, China too quickly for its bat hosts to have carried it there -- a dispersal pattern consistent with that of SARS-CoV-1, which caused the 2002 SARS outbreak.
By Susanne Clara Bard
The ancestor . . .
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Bat Virus Evolution Suggests Wildlife Trade Sparked COVID-19 Virus Emergence in Humans
Study finds that SARS-CoV-2 arrived in Wuhan, China too quickly for its bat hosts to have carried it there -- a dispersal pattern consistent with that of SARS-CoV-1, which caused the 2002 SARS outbreak.
By Susanne Clara Bard
The ancestor . . .