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Bat viruses being studied in Cambodia to gain new coronavirus pandemic insights | South China Morning Post

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Bat researchers in Cambodia are on a mission to help track the origins of the pandemic by collecting samples from horseshoe bats in the country’s northern regions near Laos. Coronaviruses considered very similar to Covid-19 were found in animals in the area a decade ago, and in bats as recently as 2020. Bats have be…

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