The new coronavirus PDF-2180 originated from bats.

Researchers in Uganda and Uganda said Thursday that they have found a new type of coronavirus (PDF-2180) similar to the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome virus in Ugandan bats, further supporting the idea that the virus originated in bats.
but scientists stress that unlike the MIDDLES virus, the new virus may not be easily transmitted to people.
the new coronavirus, named PDF-2180, was discovered by scientists from a bat caught in southern Uganda, researchers report in the american journal Microbiology.
genome sequencing showed that the virus was 87 per cent consistent with the coronavirus that causes MIDDLES and 91 per cent with NeoCoV, another bat-derived coronavirus found in South Africa.
the protrusion gene used to invade cells is only 46% consistent with the protrusion gene used to invade cells.
further studies have shown that the new coronavirus cannot infect monkey cells or respiratory cells donated by healthy people.
in its current form, the virus may not pose a threat to human health," Simon Anthony, an assistant professor at Columbia University who was involved in the study, said in a statement.
" also means a further increase in the number of coronavirus.
, scientists have previously found various types of coronavirus in South Africa, Mexico, Thailand, the Netherlands and China.
"these findings suggest that coronavirus associated with MESD is highly correlated with bats and geographically widely distributed," Anthony said.
first detected in Saudi Arabia in 2012, patients with severe respiratory problems, with a death rate of about 40 per cent.
previous studies have found that the virus may have been transmitted from camels to humans.
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