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From what I read, the viruses live in the intestine in bats. So no, only through consumption of bats themselves or contact with their excretions.
by krajzeg 7y ago
From what I read, the viruses live in the intestine in bats. So no, only through consumption of bats themselves or contact with their excretions.
- rjsw 7y agoIf their excretions create an aerosol then you could breath it in.
- tyfon 7y agoIf I were to guess I'd say it is from collecting guano to use as fertiliser. This practice is quite common and used to be so common that there is an expression in Norwegian for something selling very well, "Det selger som hakka møkk" [1], which means "It is selling like chopped shit". [1] https://www.sprakradet.no/svardatabase/sporsmal-og-svar/som-hakka-mokk/ https://www.sprakradet.no/svardatabase/sporsmal-og-svar/som-... (Norwegian)