New SARS-like virus can jump directly from bats to humans, no treatment available

Tuesday, November 10, 2015 - 19:00 in Biology & Nature

Researchers from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have discovered a new bat SARS-like virus that can jump directly from its bat hosts to humans without mutation. However, researchers point out that if the SARS-like virus did jump, it is still unclear whether it could spread from human to human.

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