Bats to blame for pig-killer virus in China: research
The finding, based on geneticaltest, underlined the urgency of tracking viruses in animal "reservoirs" like bats, they wrote in the science journal Nature. "This research highlights the importance of identifying coronavirus diversity & distribution in bats to mitigate aftertime outbreaks which can threaten livestock, public health, & economic development," said the paper. The virus, the team found, came from horseshoe bats in a zone near the birthplace of SARS — Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome — some 15 years ago. Highly infectious & deathly, the SARS virus killed almost800, almost 1 in 10. The research findings ought serve as "a caution of viral interspecies commute among wildlife & domestic animals," research co-author Zhengli Shi told AFP.
Chinese scholars blame bats for spreading pig virus - Xinhua
as declared in Source: Xinhua| 2018-04-09 09 |31 |53|Editor: LiangyuVideo Player CloseGUANGZHOU, April nine (Xinhua) -- investigators have identified a coronavirus in horseshoe bats & approved it is to blame for killing some 25,000 piglets in China. The newborn swine on farms in China's southern Guangdong county mysteriously started having diarrhea, vomiting & death in 2016 & 2017. investigators initially suspected porcine epidemic diarrhea virus (PEDV), however more tests based on geneticaltest evidenced it was SADS, or swine acute diarrhea syndrome. According to Shi, investigators gathered 591 bat samples, mostly from horseshoe bats between 2013 & 2016 & 10 % of them tested positive. The study was a cooperationbetween scholars from China, Singapore & the U.S. & the findings were published in the journal Nature final 7 days.collected by :Sandra Alex
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