…“About a quarter the 27 viruses we identified were viruses of mammals – the rest were viruses of insects and other invertebrates,” Prof Tony Goldberg, from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, in the US, told the BBC.

“All 27 viruses were new to science, so we don’t know what effects they might have on humans or other animals. But one virus stood out because is was a relative of a virus everyone knows: SARS coronavirus 2…”

Source: Deforestation pushes animals in Uganda forest to eat virus-laden bat poo – Stigmatis News