What is the relationship between Wuhan virus and bats? What is the origin of Wuhan virus?

Recently, an unknown pneumonia occurred in Wuhan, and the number of cases increased significantly on the 18th and 19th. According to Professor Yuen Kwok-yung, Chair Professor of Infectious Diseases, Department of Microbiology, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, University of Hong Kong, at a press conference of the Hong Kong Center for Health Protection, based on the viral gene map, the gene sequence of its related map was compared with other sequences on the Internet. The closest thing to the Wuhan novel coronavirus is the bat SARS coronavirus in Zhoushan, Zhejiang. Let's learn about it together!

What is the relationship between the Wuhan virus and bats?

On January 12, Shanghai Public Health Clinical Center, together with Wuhan Central Hospital, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention,

Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, University of Sydney and many other research institutions,

At virological.org, the gene bank website GISAID

jointly announced the genetic sequence of one of the cases of unknown pneumonia infection in Wuhan,

Electron microscope photos of the virus were also released.

What is the origin of the Wuhan virus?

Professor Yuen Kwok-yung, Chair Professor of Infectious Diseases, Department of Microbiology, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, University of Hong Kong, said at a press conference of the Hong Kong Centre for Health Protection,

According to the viral gene map, the gene sequence of its related map is compared with other sequences on the Internet.

The closest one is the SARS-like coronavirus in bats in Zhoushan, Zhejiang.

So far, we seem to be able to judge that

The virus that appeared in Wuhan this time is likely to be a new coronavirus.

But it is not the SARS virus.

At present, it does not have the ability to directly transmit from person to person.

Now, it is almost certain that

The source of this virus is most likely: bats.

Has the SARS virus always been parasitic in bats?

This is a rumor! The official rumor has been refuted. The Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention stated that SARS broke out in my country from 2002 to 2003. No SARS cases have been found in my country in the past decade or so. Currently, no human SARS coronavirus has been found in bats. It is rumored that the Wuhan pneumonia virus is a long-standing SARS-like coronavirus. The Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention stated that the "coronavirus" widely circulated on the Internet is the transliteration of the coronavirus. The pathogen that caused the Wuhan viral pneumonia epidemic is a new coronavirus, not the SARS virus. Current investigations show that the virus is weaker than SARS in terms of human-to-human transmission and pathogenicity.

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The claim that the virus may have originated from bats is well-founded:

The Hendra virus outbreak in Australia in 1994;

In 1997, an outbreak of Menangle virus occurred in Australia;

In 1998, there was an outbreak of Nipah virus in Malaysia.

In 2002, the SARS (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome) coronavirus caused SARS.

In recent years, Ebola virus (EBOV) and Marburg virus (MARV), Lloviu virus (LLOV) and Bombali virus (BOMV), rabies virus, Hendra virus, Nipah virus, etc.

There is also the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) virus and so on, which are said to be related to bats.