The genetic study traces the origins of Covid in bats
At the beginning of the 2000s, a coronavirus that infects bats jumped into procione dogs and other wild mammals in south -western China. Some of those animals were sold in the markets, where the Coronavirus jumped again, in humans. The result was Pandemia Sars, which spread in 33 countries and caused 774 lives. A few months, scientists discovered the crownavirus in mammals known as Palm Wests sold in a market in the center of the epidemic.In a study published on Wednesday, a team of researchers compared Sars' evolutionary history with that of Covid 17 years later. The researchers analyzed the genomes of the two coronavirus who caused the pandemics, together with 248 coronavirus related to bats and other mammals.Jonathan Pekar, an evolutionary virologist of the University of Edinburgh a...