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Written by: Chen Qianting
2020-01-24 21:42
Last updated: 2020-01-24 21:43The outbreak of "Wuhan pneumonia" caused by the new coronavirus continues to expand, and the outside world is concerned about the source of the virus. A team of mainland experts recently published a study in the English academic journal "Journal of Medical Virology", speculating that the virus may originate from bats and spread to humans via snakes.
Xu Shuchang, chairman of the Scientific Committee for New Discoveries and Animal Infectious Diseases of the Centre for Health Protection, said that the research is reasoning and is for reference only for the time being. It cannot be confirmed. "The reality is not clear."
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Researchers at Peking University, Guangxi University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Ningbo University, and Wuhan Institute of Bioengineering published on Wednesday in the English academic journal Medical Journal of Virology pointed out that the new coronavirus is a recombinant virus, and some of its gene sequences are derived from bat coronavirus The analysis indicates that the snake is most likely to be an animal carrying Wuhan pneumonia virus.
Zhong Nanshan, a high-level expert group leader of the National Health and Medical Commission and an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, interviewed earlier that according to epidemiological analysis, the source of the new coronavirus is likely to be wild animals, such as bamboo rats and crickets.
Xu Shuchang, chairman of the Scientific Committee on New Discoveries and Animal Infectious Diseases, said that the study concluded that snakes are a new coronavirus-mediated host genus that could not be confirmed. (Photo by Luo Junhao)
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