BBC - The likely source of the respiratory disease Sars is the horseshoe bat, a new study suggests.
Researchers found a virus closely related to the Sars coronavirus in bats from three regions of China.
Writing in the journal Science, they say the virus may have needed to infect another animal such as the civet before it could transmit to humans.
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