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Seven new coronaviruses have been discovered in bats in Gabon, Africa, but their potential to spill over into people and cause a covid-19-like pandemic is unclear.
We’ve known that coronaviruses can jump from bats to people and cause serious illness since the 2002-03 SARS coronavirus outbreak was traced back to bats in China. Covid-19 is another coronavirus that is thought to have originated in Chinese bats and crossed to people, possibly via other animals.
The majority of bat coronaviruses identified so far have been found …
source: newscientist.com