In defense of bats in a COVID world (commentary)

Mongabay
May 11, 2020, 1:50 pm187 pts
Much is being said lately about wild animals and epidemics these days. And it is true, the majority of viral emergent epidemics start in animals and are passed on to humans, in what is called a “zoonotic” transmission. Humans are the perfect target for epidemics, pathogens and parasites. We are many,…

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