A popular hangout for bats, tourists and now COVID sleuths

Although the coronavirus that causes COVID-19, which came to public attention in late 2019, has not been conclusively traced to bats, in Yunnan province in southwestern China, a researcher found evidence in horseshoe bats of a virus that closely resembles it. Horseshoe bat droppings from Cambodia have also shown some linkages. And the same bat family was the natural reservoir for the SARS coronavirus.