flying-bat Scientists in China have raised “urgent concerns” after discovering at least 20 never-before-seen viruses in bats that live in orchards near human populations. They are worried about the risk of contamination to food sources and “the potential for these viruses to spill over into humans or livestock.” According to the scientists whose discoveries were recently published in the journal PLOS Pathogens, their analysis “identified 22 viral species, including 20 novel viruses, two of which represented newly discovered henipaviruses closely related to the highly pathogenic Hendra and Nipa...

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