Bats can prevent coronavirus disease!
Bats can spread coronaviruses without getting sick themselves. New research is now trying to discover possible reasons for this. The virus and the cells of the bats seem to adapt to each other, which leads to a protective effect.
The results of the investigation were published in the English-language journal “Scientific Reports”.
The latest study by the University of Saskatchewan (Canada) examined the reasons why bats can transmit coronaviruses without getting sick.
The researchers report that coronaviruses such as MERS, SARS and, more recently, the COVID19-causing coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 have their origin in bats. Although the above-mentioned viruses can cause serious and often even fatal diseases in humans, bats themselves do not appear to become ill for reasons that have not been well understood until now.
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