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Originally Posted by multiweb
Were there bats for sales as food in that market where it all started?
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Hi Marc,
Some researchers are investigating whether the virus may have spread
from bats to pangolins.
Pangolins are the most widely trafficked mammal on the planet, they are
critically endangered and do appear in markets in China.
However, it is not clear whether any bats or pangolins, live or dead,
were on sale in December at the Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market in Wuhan.
New York Times Feb. 10, 2020 article on whether pangolins may have
been the intermediate host :-
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/10/s...ronavirus.html
You will probably be familiar with the cases in Australia where the food
eaten by horses was infected by the fluids from flying foxes and in turn
contact with the horses was deadly to humans.
See :-
https://www.health.nsw.gov.au/Infect...dra_virus.aspx
In any case the Berkeley press release provides some insight into the remarkable immune and inflammatory systems of bats.