New Research Reveals Bats & Pangolins in Southeast Asia Harbor COVID-19-Related Coronaviruses


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TOPICS: COVID-19 Duke-NUS Medical School Immunology Infectious Diseases Virology By Duke-NUS Medical School February 12, 2021 First and only study to give molecular and serological evidence that SARS-CoV-2 -related coronaviruses circulate in bats and pangolins in Southeast Asia High diversity of SARS-CoV-2-related coronaviruses in the region makes finding the immediate progenitor virus of SARS-CoV-2 with intensified and internationally coordinated surveillance highly possible While the World Health Organization (WHO) continues its mission to Wuhan investigating the origin and early transmission of SARS-CoV-2, a new study led by scientists from Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore, and Chulalongkorn University, Thailand, shows that SARS-CoV-2-related coronaviruses...