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They absolutely live in Wuhan, or at very least, 60 miles away from Wuhan. https://www.sixthtone.com/news/1002326/how-chinas-bat-caves-hold-the-secret-to-preve
by mikeyouse 4y ago
They absolutely live in Wuhan, or at very least, 60 miles away from Wuhan.
https://www.sixthtone.com/news/1002326/how-chinas-bat-caves-hold-the-secret-to-preventing-epidemics https://www.sixthtone.com/news/1002326/how-chinas-bat-caves-...
We have a huge sampling error problem since SARS clearly came from Yunnan, so much of the research and characterization focus has been in the South -- but bats and bat coronaviruses are endemic to all of China. Hence the caution on relying on this type of thought-process to make sweeping conclusions.
E.g, just "ctrl+F" for Hubei in this paper: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7106260/pdf/main.pdf https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7106260/pdf/mai...