Spanish virologists have found traces of the novel coronavirus in a sample of Barcelona waste water collected in March 2019, nine months before the COVID-19 disease was identified in China, the University of Barcelona said on Friday.
Naw it for sure originated somewhere in South or Southeast Asia. Maybe the Middle East. They have only found SARS like coronaviruses in bat populations there, not in populations in Europe proper or the Americas. Totally possible it’s been spreading around in low levels in the population for a year or two though. It will be interesting to see where the locate the original bat reservoir, EcoHealth Alliance does good work here.
Naw it for sure originated somewhere in South or Southeast Asia. Maybe the Middle East. They have only found SARS like coronaviruses in bat populations there, not in populations in Europe proper or the Americas. Totally possible it’s been spreading around in low levels in the population for a year or two though. It will be interesting to see where the locate the original bat reservoir, EcoHealth Alliance does good work here.
Yeah, the genetic lineage work is pretty slam dunk on that.