This isn’t the first time this has happened.
Kuhn believes that it’s not likely that novel coronavirus spread directly from bats to humans, but that one or more animals at the market in Wuhan were infected by bats and served as an intermediate host in the transfer of the virus from bats to humans. It’s thought that humans then came in contact with an infected animal, or animals, at the market.
While they don’t know the exact route the virus took to get to humans, scientists all seem to agree that the novel coronavirus came from animals—particularly considering other recent disease outbreaks that were caused by zoonotic viruses.COVID-19 is not the first illness that has made the leap from bats to humans.
“This is something that has been increasing probably because we’ve degraded their habitat and come in more contact directly with more animals,” says Kuhn. He also notes that humans have created environments where there are high densities of animals, “whether that’s a swine farm or a wet market, in which viruses can spread,” he explains. “So, there will continue to be this threat of pathogens moving into a new ecological niche.”Unfortunately, experts say no.
“The question is, will we be able to predict this in the future?” he says. “And we’re not there yet. We can anticipate that it’s coming because of our more frequent exposure to animals, but we can’t anticipate what it’s going to look like right now.” For Kuhn, one of the keys is developing better technologies that can tell if someone is infected with a virus.
So, while researchers continue to investigate these diseases, the most important thing you can do right now is make sure you keep yourself and those around you healthy, per the
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