6 hours agoScientists detect a type of coronary in Japan and Cambodia similar to SARS-CoV-2
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(6 years ago)As hundreds of scientists are trying to understand the new infectious disease, some researchers in Japan and Cambodia were surprised at what they found in two laboratory freezes in Asia. Researchers have found a coronavirus similar to the SARS-CoV-2 virus that caused pandemic, preserved in a Cambodian refrigerator. Japanese researchers later reported [...]
As hundreds of scientists are trying to understand the new infectious disease, some researchers in Japan and Cambodia were surprised at what they found in two laboratory freezes in Asia.
Researchers have found a coronavirus similar to the SARS-CoV-2 virus that caused pandemic, preserved in a Cambodian refrigerator. Later, Japanese researchers also reported the discovery of another close relative of the coronavirus in the dung of frozen bats, Kosova Prees broadcast.
According to scientists, species of the virus are the first known relatives of the pandemic virus to be found outside of China.
It is believed that according to some evidence the SARS-CoV-2 virus, which killed over 1,388,000 people, is originally from bats, but by now it's not clear whether it went directly from bats to people or through an intermediate host.
The virus found in Cambodia was actually discovered in two bats, which were seized in the north of the country in 2010 and the genome of the virus has not been divided yet, but the discovery was not published.
“If this virus is linked to the pandemic virus, it can provide essential information about the coronary and can detect how SARS-CV-2 passed from bats to people, leading a way to find the origin of the virus”, said Veasna Duong, a virologist at the Postteur Institute at Pnom Pen, who directed the search for samples in Cambodia and discovered findings for Nature magazine.
According to researchers, to solve all these mysteries, the virus found in Cambodia has to separate more than 97 percent of its genes from the virus that caused SARS-CoV-2.
Another virus - Rc-o319 - identified in a small Japanese bat in 2013 - found in November 81 percent of its genome to be similar to the pandemic virus.
Edward Holmes, a virologist at Sydney University in Australia, said that this discovery makes it very distant to give a mirror on the origin of COVID-19.
Alice Latinne, an evolutionary biologist in the Vietnam Wild Animal Preservation Society, in Hanoi, said both findings are exciting after confirming that viruses closely related to SARS-CoV-2 are relatively common in bats or in Rhinolophous bats.
As far as Rc-o319 means that Duong seems to have very distant cell connections conducted by the Japanese team of scientists found that the virus cannot be linked to the receptor that SARS-CoV-2 uses to invade human cells, indicating that it cannot easily infect humans.
The research team has picked up more bats in Japan this year and they plan to test for Corleone.
Vibol Hull, a virologist at Cambodia's Pasteur Institute who blocked Shamel's bats at the entrance of a cave in 2010, returned to the same location in northern Cambodia to catch more bats in October of this year.
In April of this year, the American Agency for International Development provided a research programme P REDICT, an additional $3 million and a 6-month extension to request evidence of SARS-CoV-2 in animal samples mostly bats and CHA pants that were kept on laboratory freeze in Laos, Malaysia, Nepal, Thailand, Vietnam and Cambodia.
A full investigation report is expected to be published in the coming weeks.
