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The medicine of coronavirus

6 Minute English

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COVID-19: The Precursor to SARS-2

A recent research project in China has identified over 700 different types of coronavirus carried by bats. Dr Peter Dasak of New York's EcoHealth Alliance thinks that new strains of the virus have the potential to cause future pandemics. He spent years in the Chinese countryside looking for the coronaviruses that could jump from bats to humans.

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