The virus originated at a game market in the city of Wuhan. First, snakes were identified as potential viruses. Then bats came into the picture. On Friday, Chinese researchers reported indications that they had probably been transferred to humans via a squamous animal.
The mammal, loved in China because of the scales that would have a healing effect, probably acted as an intermediate host between bat and human. According to virologists, it is important to know exactly how the virus was skipped, because it can provide insight into the development of a future, similar virus.
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