Scientists in 2007 warned China was a ‘time bomb’ for COVID-19

As the world battles growing new coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic that has killed over 14,500 people, a study that appeared 12 years back then claimed that the situation in China was a “time bomb” for a dangerous virus outbreak.

Published by the journal Clinical Microbiology Reviews in 2007, the researchers noted that the “presence of a large reservoir of SARS-CoV-like viruses in horseshoe bats, together with the culture of eating exotic mammals in southern China, is a time bomb”.

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