By creating new habitats for bats, climate change may have played a role in the emergence of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that caused the Covid-19 pandemic. This is according to a study by the Department of Zoology at the University of Cambridge, which was published on Friday 5 February in the journal Science of the Total Environment.
“Shifts in global bat diversity suggest a possible role of climate change in the emergence of SARS-CoV-1 and SARS-CoV- 2”, state the authors of the study.
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