China’s ‘batwoman’ scientist warns another ‘highly likely’ coronavirus outbreak in future: Report
South China Morning Post. In a recent paper written with colleagues, Shi who is also popularly known as “batwoman," warned that the world must be prepared for another disease like Covid-19 because “if a coronavirus caused diseases to emerge before, there is a high chance it will cause future outbreaks," she said as quoted by the SCMP.
Shi earned the nickname of ‘batwoman’ over her studies on viruses that spread from animals, particularly bats to humans. In the study, Shi’s team from the Wuhan Institute of Virology, assessed the likelihood of 40 coronavirus species spreading to humans, of which they rated half of them as “highly risky".
As per the report, 6 are already known to have caused diseases that infected humans, moreover, evidence also suggested that three more of them caused disease or infected other animal species. "Exciting news! Mint is now on WhatsApp Channels
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