People should not make rash judgement and condemn bat eating as the cause of this disease The scientist still undecided as the way this disease is transmitted Just like Ougash said in previous post people with racist inclination will come out the woodwork and join the the chorus to humiliate and dehumanized Chinese here is the excerpt from yahoo news
Genetic analysis of samples of the virus, called 2019-nCoV, from nine patients revealed it to be closely related to two SARS-like coronaviruses that came from bats.
That
, published in the The Lancet, suggests that an animal sold at a market in Wuhan could have caught the virus from bats then passed it to humans.
One study suggested that the virus jumped from bats to snakes to humans, but other researchers said that's unlikely.
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In a peer-reviewed
published January 22 in the Journal of Medical Virology, a group of researchers in China suggested that snakes were the most likely animals to have passed the virus to humans.
Several other scientists have voiced their disagreement with the assessment, however.
"They have no evidence snakes can be infected by this new coronavirus and serve as a host for it," Paulo Eduardo Brandão, a virologist at the University of São Paulo who is investigating whether coronaviruses can infect snakes, told
. "There's no consistent evidence of coronaviruses in hosts other than mammals and Aves (birds)."
Virologist Cui Jie, who was on a team that identified SARS-related viruses in bats in 2017, said this strain from Wuhan is clearly a "mammalian virus."
"Nothing supports snakes being involved," David Robertson, a virologist at the University of Glasgow, told Nature.
Though the coronavirus is a respiratory disease, a study that has not yet been peer-reviewed suggests it might also travel through the digestive system.
People wearing masks shop at a supermarket on the second day of the Chinese Lunar New Year, following the outbreak of a new coronavirus, in Wuhan, Hubei province, China January 26, 2020. cnsphoto via REUTERS
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The
, shared in the pre-publication repository biorXiv on Friday, comes from researchers at the Second Military Medical University in Shanghai. They detected an enzyme signature of the virus in cells from the small intestine and colon.
Australian researchers grew the virus in a lab outside China for the first time. It could help identify the antibodies humans produce before they show symptoms
Actually the habit of eating bat soup come from Palau and island in pacific it become popular in China due to tourism. I can believe it because Paniki or bat dishes has been eaten for generation in North Sulawesi north Celebes and no known disease is transmitted they still do now