GenPI.co Jogja – Professor of the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine (FKH) Universitas Gadjah Mada (UGM), Prof. dr. R. Wasito revealed, the coronavirus experienced thousands of mutations in bats to cause human infection and cause SARS and MERS.
“Currently, it is still being sought why mutations can occur repeatedly up to thousands of times in blood circulation and in bat tissue cells which is still a mystery, but not all bats have corona,” he said quoting the UGM website, Wednesday (1/12).
He said this in a webinar entitled Merdeka COVID-19 which was held by the Pathology Department, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine UGM, Wednesday (30/11).
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In his research since 1988 on coronavirus, in large farm animals, poultry, and small animals.
Warsito said that initially this virus was not transmitted to humans.
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However, the symptoms caused by animals infected with coronavirus generally attack the respiratory tract.
However, not a few also attack the digestive tract of animals.
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Warsito suspects that the research conducted in 1988 also occurred in COVID-19.
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