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The pangolin, a scaly, anteater-like mammal, has been portrayed as a suspect in the spread of the coronavirus. PETER FROST makes the case for the defence
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DOES anyone really know the origin of the coronavirus? President Trump would have us believe it was made in a Chinese laboratory.
More serious commentators believe that it started among the curious — and mostly illegal — wild animals offered for sale in the Huanan market in Wuhan. We know the virus lives in several species of bat in a single cave in southern China.
The bats themselves cannot pass the virus to humans. For that it needs an intermediate species, probably a mammal.
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