Studies that expose bats to SARS-CoV-2 could help gauge future pandemic risks

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Science: Another team, led by veterinarian Angela Bosco-Lauth at Colorado State University (CSU), inoculated 18 Mexican free-tailed bats with two different strains of SARS-CoV-2 and reported that none even shed the virus. The two experiments have the same bottom line, Bosco-Lauth says: “These bats are certainly not shedding the same kind of volumes that a person or a domestic cat might shed,” she says, which suggests they’re unlikely to become a reservoir.

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