Re: Stray dogs may have spread coronavirus from bats to humans

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> Please follow link to read full article:
>
> https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-8218329/Stray-dogs-intermediary-animal-spread-coronavirus-bats-humans.html
>
> Stray dogs may have been the 'intermediary animal' that spread coronavirus
> from bats to humans — rather than pangolins, as previously thought — a
> study claimed (stock image)
>
> Paper author and biologist Xuhua Xia of the University of Ottawa proposes
> a scenario in which 'the coronavirus first spread from bats to stray dogs
> eating bat meat.'
>
> 'The specific origins of SARS-CoV-2 are of vital interest in the current
> world health crisis,' he added.
>
> 'Our observations have allowed the formation of a new hypothesis for the
> origin and initial transmission.'
>
> 'The ancestor of COVID-19 and its nearest relative — a bat coronavirus —
> infected the intestine of dogs, most likely resulting in a rapid evolution
> of the virus and its jump into humans.'

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