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大约十年前,中国曾爆发了严重的SARS病毒流行,这种罕见的病毒导致许多人丧生。但是这种病毒是从什么动物传给人类的,一直没有定论,人们只是猜测可能是因为有人捕捉和食用果子狸,使潜伏在果子狸身上的病毒传递给了人类。现在,果子狸的不白之冤可以洗清了,真正的罪魁祸首是一种蝙蝠——中华菊头蝠。科学家在这种蝙蝠身上发现了两种类似SARS病毒的冠状病毒,这两种冠状病毒的基因有95%与侵害人体的SARS病毒相似,它们能够感染人体细胞。而在果子狸身上,人们并没有发现类似的冠状病毒。
About a decade ago, a serious SARS virus epidemic broke out in China, a rare virus that killed many people. However, it has been inconclusive about what kind of animal the virus transmitted to human beings. People only speculated that someone might have caught and consumed the civet and transmitted the virus lurking in the civet to humans. Now, the real civet injustice can be washed clear, the real culprit is a bat - Chinese chrysanthemum bat. Two species of coronavirus similar to the SARS virus were found on the bat. The two coronavirus genes are 95% similar to the human-borne SARS virus and they can infect human cells. In the civet, people did not find a similar coronavirus.