Coronavirus: The race to find the source in wildlife

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2. Article is not about eating bats, but the pangolin acting as a transmitter

Pangolin are being hunted to near extinction . Chinese prize their scales as a medicine and eat them in traditional dishes. The bat shit is on the jungle floor, the pangolin is exposed to it, a hunter kills and then descales the animal for its hide and scales and then sells the flesh as food to another person.

From Wikipedia:

In February 2020, university researchers in China employing genomic sequencing found a 99% match between coronavirus found in pangolins and COVID-19, the virus responsible for the 2019–20 coronavirus outbreak

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pangolin