Photograph of a swallow cave (or Yanzi Dong) near Jianshui, Honghe prefecture in Yunnan province, China, some 60 km from the provincial capital Kunming. It is known for the hundreds of swallows that make the cave their home, hundreds of which can be seen flying around in Spring. The cave, like many across southern China, is also home to bats which are known to harbour many viruses including coronaviruses. One virologist and researcher, Shi Zhengli, who works out of the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV), which is part of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, was one of a team of scientists who, in 2
Photograph of a swallow cave (or Yanzi Dong) near Jianshui, Honghe prefecture in Yunnan province, China, some 60 km from the provincial capital Kunming. It is known for the hundreds of swallows that make the cave their home, hundreds of which can be seen flying around in Spring. The cave, like many across southern China, is also home to bats which are known to harbour many viruses including coronaviruses. One virologist and researcher, Shi Zhengli, who works out of the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV), which is part of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, was one of a team of scientists who, in 2005, showed that the SARS pathogen was a bat virus that had spilled over into people.
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