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Asked by anon-249574 to Ricardo, Nuru, Kate on 3 Mar 2020.
Question: How did the Coronavirus start?
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Kate Mitchell answered on 3 Mar 2020: last edited 18 Mar 2020 7:35 pm
We don’t know for sure, but it looks like it originally came from bats, then probably spread from animals to people at a live animal market in Wuhan in China.
I’m updating my answer (18th) March: this is less certain than I suggested previously – the novel coronavirus is similar to a virus that infects bats, so it may have come from bats. But there’s still more research to be done on this.
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Ricardo Sanchez answered on 5 Mar 2020:
There are many hypotheses but it is believed it began in Wuhan in an animal market as Kate suggested.
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Amadou commented on :
I have no clue but I imagine its a study product that spread from bats and mice which are study products , and human consume or thus bats escape and infect man
Kate commented on :
Amadou, I’m not sure what you mean by study product? Novel coronavirus is a virus.
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