New SARS-like virus can jump directly from bats to humans

[cronus]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/artic ... demic.html

New SARS-like virus can 'jump directly from bats to humans without mutating, sparking fears of a future epidemic'

Scientists have discovered a new virus, similar to SARS, that can jump from bats to humans, prompting fears of a future epidemic.
They warn there is no treatment for the virus, referred to as SHC014-CoV, which can cross the species divide without the need to mutate.
But, they caution, it is still not clear whether or not the disease has the ability to spread from human to human.

Senior study author, Dr Ralph Baric, at the University of North Carolina, said: 'Studies have predicted the existence of nearly 5,000 coronaviruses in bat populations and some of these have the potential to emerge as human pathogens.

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[Tero]

Bursting your bubble:
... it is still not clear whether or not the disease has the ability to spread from human to human.

[cronus]

Bursting your bubble:
... it is still not clear whether or not the disease has the ability to spread from human to human.

Any day now, a new one will come along, the right one for you and me. Seven billion....half without even basic health care.

[JimC]

Will this topic go viral?

[mistermack]

"NEW" virus?

Bit of an exaggeration. It's not one new virus. It's 5,000 old ones.
New to this forum maybe.

Anyway, by their figures, SARS only kills ten percent. Sorry Scump. You'll have to keep looking.