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Snakes could be the original source of the new coronavirus outbreak in China

  • Written by Haitao Guo, Professor of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, University of Pittsburgh
Chinese cobra (_Naja atra_) with hood spread.Briston/Wikimedia, CC BY-SA

Snakes – the Chinese krait and the Chinese cobra – may be the original source of the newly discovered coronavirus that has triggered an outbreak of a deadly infectious respiratory illness in China this winter.

The many-banded krait (Bungarus multicinctus), also...

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