‘Highly risky’: China’s ‘batwoman’ warns about another coronavirus-type outbreak

According to a report in the South China Morning Post(SCMP), Shi and her colleagues from the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) published a paper in July 2023, in which they evaluated the human spillover risk of 40 coronavirus species and rated half of them as “highly risky”. Of these, six are already known to have caused diseases that infected humans, while there is evidence that a further three caused disease or infected other animal species. The study warned that “it is almost certain that there will be future disease emergence and it is highly likely a [coronavirus] disease again”.

Source – ETHealth World