A new coronavirus that can spread to humans has been discovered by a China-linked scientist.
Researchers from Brazil, along with colleagues affiliated with the University of Hong Kong, discovered the new strain after swabbing the mouths and rectums of bats.
The novel strain is closely related to MERS — a disease that kills about 35 percent of the people it infects.
Researchers have warned that the makeup of the virus’s spike protein, which it uses to trigger an…
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