A virus similar to the new coronavirus found in pangolins on March 27 at 6:25
Researchers in China have announced that a virus similar to the new coronavirus, which continues to spread worldwide, has been discovered in a family of rare pangolin mammals whose scales are covered with scales. He points out that pangolins may play an important role in spreading the coronavirus in nature.
Researchers at Hong Kong University and Guangxi Medical University live in Southeast Asia, smuggled into China and seized by authorities between 2017 and last year, according to a paper published in the British science journal Nature on June 26. Eight out of 31 Malay Pangolins have found a virus similar to the new coronavirus that is causing worldwide transmission.
The coronavirus found in the malay pang and the new coronavirus had a sequence of 85% to 92% identical genes.
Previous studies suggest that these coronaviruses were originally possessed by bats, but in this study new coronaviruses were also found at a high frequency. He points out that pangolins may play an important role in spreading.
Researchers also say that wildlife transactions should be strictly banned from selling in the market, as they increase the risk of transmitting natural viruses to humans.