Jakarta, CNBC Indonesia – A research says that the SARS virus that spread in the world in the early 2000s is still infecting Southeast Asians. In fact, the number of infections associated with the virus has reached 66,000 in a year.
The study, published by Nature Communications on Wednesday (10/8/2022), said the virus, which was transmitted from bats to humans, had been underestimated. In fact, mapping this virus will be able to help efforts to determine the origin of Covid-19 which is also similar to SARS.
“Our estimate that an average of 66,000 people are infected with SARSr-CoV annually in Southeast Asia suggests that bat-to-human spread of SARSr-CoV is common in the region, and is not detected by surveillance programs and clinical studies in the vast majority of cases,” wrote the authors. quoted release Al Jazeera that.
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“This geographic data and spillover scale can be used to target surveillance and prevention programs for potential future emergence of bat-CoV.”
The study also revealed that nearly 500 million people live near habitats where the virus-carrying bats are found. The virus is thought to have been spread by 26 species of bats in the area between China, South Asia and Southeast Asia.
“Southern China, northeastern Myanmar, Laos and northern Vietnam were identified as regions with the highest bat species diversity hosting SARS-like coronaviruses (SARSr-CoVs).”
Covid-19 is actually caused by the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus. So far, research into the origin of the virus has stalled due to limited data from China, the first country to report the presence of the virus.
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