#Covid_19 came from #bats
#Ebola came from #bats
#Rabies came from #bats
#Marburg came from #bats
Hendra virus came from #bats

WHY BATS?

Debora Mackenzie sets out an answer in her book on COVID-19 (read on for the answers)

The summary she gives is:
(1) Bats fly
(2) In order to fly, they need to produce lots of energy (i.e. they need a high metabolic rate)
(3) This means their bodies contain lots of DNA fragments left by the metabolic processes.

(4) Bats treat DNA fragments as normal, and don& #39;t get rid of them with inflammatory processes (like humans would)
(5) The high metabolic rate means that bats have a higher temperature than us, so if humans use a fever to disturb a virus, they might actually be helping the virus

Mackenzie stresses that the response is conservation and avoiding deforestation -- trying to kill off bats would just make things worse.

I haven& #39;t carefully fact-checked her claims.

BTW I& #39;m quite enjoying this book, and it& #39;s a bargain at 99p on kindle. https://smile.amazon.co.uk/COVID-19-Pandemic-Never-Should-Happened/dp/0349128359/ref=sr_1_1?crid=XK6V50BOLMAK&dchild=1&keywords=debora+mackenzie&qid=1597394522&s=books&sprefix=debora+mac%2Caps%2C142&sr=1-1">https://smile.amazon.co.uk/COVID-19-...

Meant to mention @debmackenzie1 on this thread to thank her for writing this book!