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Ridhi Aggarwal1, Khushdeep Kaur2, Ashutosh Nirola3
1Department of Periodontics, Gian Sagar Dental College and Hospital, Rajpura, India.
Abstract:
The deadly COVID-19 outbreak which started in Wuhan city of China in December 2019, created a dangerous Public Health Disaster the world has ever witnessed. Bats have been widely recognised as natural reservoir hosts of several zoonotic diseases, such as severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) and Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) caused by coronaviruses. A new bat coronavirus similar to the virus resembling COVID-19, has been discovered recently by researchers at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China. The new virus named as 'HKU5-CoV-2, carries the risk of animal-to-human transmission. This paper shares the most recent information on the virus and views of other eminent scientists regarding its potential to start another pandemic.
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