Cambodia bat researchers on mission to track origin of COVID-19

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Two samples from horseshoe bats were collected in 2010 in Stung Treng province near Laos and kept in freezers at the Institut Pasteur du Cambodge (IPC) in Phnom Penh. Tests done on them last year revealed a close relative to SARS-CoV-2.

Cindy Liu and Prak Chan ThulSTUNG TRENG, Cambodia - Researchers are collecting samples from bats in northern Cambodia in a bid to understand the coronavirus pandemic, returning to a region where a very similar virus was found in the animals a decade ago.

An eight-member IPC research team has been collecting samples from bats and logging their species, sex, age and other details for a week. Similar research https://reut.rs/3EsZXVO is going on in the Philippines. Dr. Veasna Duong, Head of Virology at the IPC, said his institute had made four such trips in the past two years, hoping for clues about the origin and evolution of the bat-borne virus.

But Veasna Duong said humans were responsible for the devastation caused by COVID-19, due to interference and destruction of natural habitats.

 

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