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Re:China clamping down on coronavirus research, deleted page... by throwanem on Monday April 13, 2020 @12:00AM (#22853068)
I had a theory around guano used for fertilizer acting as a fomite, but found some research an hour ago that suggests SARS doesn't remain viable via that route, so SARS-CoV-2 probably doesn't either.

Do we know that bats are the only (or only likely) nonhuman host? Was there a significant population of cases with a known connection to the lab?

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Re:China clamping down on coronavirus research, deleted page... by andromeduck on Monday April 13, 2020 @07:05PM (#22861152)
Pangolins Malasia I think are the next closest source genetically. China imports from there as well as Africa for TCM so but the known strains from bats are still match much much better.
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