SCIENTISTS BLAME ENDANGERED ANIMAL
The report comes as Chinese scientists say the endangered pangolin may have been the animal that facilitated the spread of the virus across China.
Researchers have long suspected that the virus, which has now killed more than 630 people and infected some 31,000, was passed from an animal to a human at a market in Wuhan late last year.
Researchers at the South China Agricultural University have identified the scaly mammal as a “potential intermediate host,” the university said in a statement, without providing further details.
The report comes as Chinese scientists say the endangered pangolin may have been the animal that facilitated the spread of the virus across China.
Researchers have long suspected that the virus, which has now killed more than 630 people and infected some 31,000, was passed from an animal to a human at a market in Wuhan late last year.
Researchers at the South China Agricultural University have identified the scaly mammal as a “potential intermediate host,” the university said in a statement, without providing further details.