The coronavirus outbreak, which began last December, has been declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization.
The virus, which causes a respiratory disease known as COVID-19, has spread across the world and claimed more than 4,000 lives in three months.
A novel respiratory virus that originated in Wuhan, China, has spread to over 100 countries in Asia, Europe, North America, and the Middle East.
Much remains unknown about the virus, including how many people may have very mild or asymptomatic infections, and whether they can transmit the virus. The precise dimensions of the outbreak are hard to know.
But Professor of Epidemiology NYU School of Global Public Health, Elodie Ghedin confirmed that the CoronaVirus Disease or COVID-19 came from the Bat. They are ninety-percent (90%) sure that this novel disease came from a filthy animal market in Wuhan, China.
In answer to the question where COVID-19 came from is does more than just to give you something to blame but it is also to help the scientist to address this illness that can transfer from animals to humans. Elodie Ghedin also said that they studied the bat’s genome and that is what they found on the COVID-19.
Meanwhile, Shi—a virologist who is often called China’s “Batwoman” by her colleagues because of her virus-hunting expeditions in bat caves over the past 16 years—walked out of the conference she was attending in Shanghai and hopped on the next train back to Wuhan.
Her studies had shown that the southern, subtropical areas of Guangdong, Guangxi, and Yunnan have the greatest risk of coronaviruses jumping to humans from an animal, particularly bats, a known reservoir for many viruses.
To Shi, her first virus-discovery expedition felt like a vacation.
Let’s all pray that this pandemic virus will stop.