Synthetic virus supports a bat origin for SARS
Wednesday, November 26, 2008 - 00:42
in Health & Medicine
SARS – severe acute respiratory syndrome – alarmed the world five years ago as the first global pandemic of the 21st century. The coronavirus (SARS-CoV) that sickened more than 8,000 people – and killed nearly 800 of them – may have originated in bats, but the actual animal source is not known.