To stop new viruses jumping across to humans, we must protect and restore bat habitat

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Nov 24, 2022, 7:50 pm615 ptsHot
Bats have lived with coronaviruses for millennia. Details are still hazy about how one of these viruses evolved into SARS-CoV-2, which causes COVID in humans. Did it go directly from bats to humans or via another animal species? When? And why? If we can't answer these questions for this now-infamous virus, we…

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