Coronavirus outbreak raises question: Why are bat viruses so deadly?
Tuesday, February 11, 2020 - 09:20
in Biology & Nature
It’s no coincidence that some of the worst viral disease outbreaks in recent years — SARS, MERS, Ebola, Marburg and likely the newly arrived 2019-nCoV virus — originated in bats. A new University of California, Berkeley, study finds that bats’ fierce immune response to viruses could drive viruses to replicate faster, so that when they […]