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Did SARS come from bats?
The Scientist 2005, 19(20):20
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Wild bats, rather than civet cats, may have been the source of the coronavirus behind the deadly SARS outbreak in 2003. Lin-fa Wang of the Australian Animal Health Laboratory in Geelong and colleagues in China, Australia, and the United States tested blood, throat, and fecal swabs from 408 wild horseshoe bats, representing nine species, from four locations in Mainland China. Analyses revealed SARS-like coronavirus in five fecal samples from Rhinolophus pearsoni, Rhinolophus macrotis, and Rhinolophus ferrumequinum.[1]
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