Illegal pangolin trade may have played a part in coronavirus outbreak

Mongabay
Feb 13, 2020, 7:30 am151 pts
The death toll from the novel coronavirus outbreak, the disease now called COVID-19, crossed the 1,000 mark this week as confirmed cases surpassed 60,000, but it remains unclear how the virus arrived into human populations. Bats are widely believed to be the source of the new virus. Some findings suggest it did…

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