More habitat for bats – climate change triggered the Sars-CoV-2 triumphal march

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How the corona pandemic could even come about is the question that is currently worrying many researchers. One possible approach is now provided by a study in which climate change, habitats and pangolins play key roles. Researchers have found a possible connection between climate change, the spread of bats, the formation of coronavirus hotspots and the development of the pandemic triggered by Sars-CoV-2. According to the press release from the Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), armadillos also play a key role in this scenario. Scientists from the University of Cambridge, PIK and the University of Hawaii-Manoa were involved in the study, which was recently published in the journal “Science of the Total Environment”.

WHO study in Wuhan experts see bat theory confirmed

In it, the researchers describe major changes in natural vegetation in southern China’s Yunnan Province and neighboring areas in Myanmar and Laos over the past century as a result of climate change. The predominant tropical bushland receded more and more and gradually a tropical savannah and deciduous forest emerged. The new forms of vegetation resulted in many new bat species settling in the region and with them around 100 new species of coronaviruses. The comparisons of genetic data suggest that Sars-CoV-2 first appeared in bats in precisely this region.

New bat species in new regions

On the basis of climatic data, the researchers reconstructed the natural vegetation worldwide at the beginning of the last century and thus determined the global distribution of bat species at that time. A comparison with today’s distribution shows where the number of different bat species has changed significantly worldwide.

More than a year after the outbreak, the origin of the corona is still unclear

“Climate change has shifted bats’ habitats. The animals moved to new areas and brought their viruses with them. This not only changed where the viruses were found, but also enabled new interactions with other animals that could transmit harmful pathogens or have developed, “explains Robert Beyer, who recently joined PIK and previously conducted research at Cambridge University. Camilo Mora, professor at the University of Hawaii-Manoa and initiator of the study, adds: “We know that climate change is accelerating the transmission of viruses in wild animals to humans. This should prompt us to improve measures to reduce emissions” .

Most traded wild animal pangolin could transmit coronavirus

The southern Chinese province of Yunnan is also native to pangolins, which probably appeared as intermediate hosts for Sars-CoV-2. Experts now assume that the virus spread from bats to these animals. The infected animals were offered at a wildlife market in Wuhan in 2019, where people became infected with Sars-CoV-2 for the first time and passed the virus on. Wuhan is considered the origin of the current corona pandemic. It is estimated that bats carry over 3000 different coronaviruses worldwide. Most of these cannot easily skip over to humans. However, some like Sars-CoV-1, Sars-CoV-2, and Mers have made the leap over the past few decades, causing major epidemics or even pandemics.

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