This was reported a few weeks ago, and there's a podcast (This Week In Virology) that goes into a little more detail - highly recommended. The researchers that

This was reported a few weeks ago, and there's a podcast (This Week In Virology) that goes into a little more detail - highly recommended. The researchers that mapped the virus were part of a team that was sent to collect samples from bats to help us identify and study viruses for the next SARS/MERS outbreak. Note that "similar" is far from meaning the "same" - it just means the closest match we've seen thus far, and therefore means it's very very likely to have also evolved from bats. ...and they did not test human virulence, so I think the notification n of "missed opportunity" here is a bit of a stretch.