Published 18:26 IST, January 24th 2020
Chinese woman eats bat soup despite coronavirus link, watch video
Chinese woman eats bat soup amid fears that fruit bats were originally the carriers of the new strain of coronavirus which is rapidly sweeping through China.
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A new outbreak of a mysterious Coronavirus that originated in China's Wuhan has raised numerous fears, as medical professionals and scientists are struggling to find out origin of virus. Some scientists in China have reportedly suggested that Coronavirus could have originated from fruit bats. A recent video has surfaced of a woman eating a bat in what appears to be a bat soup despite possible link to new coronavirus spreing through China.
Bat soup despite coronavirus fears
video that was first shared on Chinese microblogging site Weibo. video shows a young woman holding a bat between chopsticks and nibbling on creature. People can be heard talking in Mandarin in background trying to help instruct her on how to eat bat. One person says to eat meat but t to eat skin while ar tells her to eat meat on bat's back.
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According to a Chinese local media outlet, Wuhan coronavirus' natural host could be bats. However, y also mention that exact source is still t confirmed. Or reports suggest that coronavirus, which has alrey infected hundreds of people and reportedly killed 17 people, is w believed to be originated from Chinese Krait and Chinese cobra. scientist w reportedly said that original source of virus is a snake, more specifically, Taiwanese Krait or Chinese Krait which is a highly vemous species of elapid snake found in much of central and sourn China and Souast Asia.
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mystery strain
It was WHO which confirmed several cases of a vel coronavirus outside China, which is of same family as dely SARS virus. UN health ncy h said that person travelling from Wuhan, China was hospitalised in Thailand and is recovering from illness. According to organisation, vel coronavirus is a new strain in large family of coronaviruses (CoV) which was t identified in humans before.
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CoV can cause illnesses ranging from common cold to more severe diseases such as Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS-CoV), and Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS-CoV). CoV is zootic which means such viruses transmit between animals and humans.
18:26 IST, January 24th 2020