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Re:China clamping down on coronavirus research, deleted page... by zozbot234 on Sunday April 12, 2020 @06:50PM (#22851599)
You don't need to eat bats for them to be a problem. The virus could have jumped via some intermediate host.

Some folks used to be skeptical wrt. the market being a source, because it was officially described as a fish/seafood market and fish are not a very plausible reservoir for this virus. However it's clear by now that all kinds of live animals were sold there, similar to other "wet" markets throughout Mainland China.

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Re:China clamping down on coronavirus research, deleted page... by lbeltrame on Sunday April 12, 2020 @07:30PM (#22851831)
> You don't need to eat bats for them to be a problem. The virus could have jumped via some intermediate host.

Currently the "jump host" hypothesis suggests the pangolin as an intermediate host from bats. Not enough evidence to be 100% sure, though.

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