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SHANGHAI (Reuters) – About 66,000 people in Southeast Asia are infected with SARS-related coronaviruses each year, and nearly 500 million have found bat hosts for these viruses, according to a study released on Wednesday. live near habitat. The study, published by Nature Communications, said bat-to-human transmission of the virus may have been “massively underestimated,” and mapping bat species in the region could pinpoint the origin of COVID-19. He added that it could be useful in efforts to The researchers looked at 26 bat species known to host SARS-like coronaviruses in an area of 5.1 million square kilometers (2 million square...
