Synthetic virus supports a bat origin for SARS

Wednesday, November 26, 2008 - 03:21 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...

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