by Charles Choi
RESEARCH ROUND-UP	Bats might be origin of SARS Email: Charles Choi - cqchoi@nasw.org News from The Scientist 2005, 6(1):20050930-01 Published   30 September 2005

SARS may have originated in wild bats in China, an international team of scientists report this week in Science. The family of bats carrying the virus is widespread in Asia and is distributed across Europe and Australia, "and we just don't yet know if the viruses are as well," co-author Peter Daszak, executive director of the Consortium for Conservation Medicine based at the Wildlife Trust in New York, told The Scientist.

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