Snakes could be the source of new coronavirus found in China

As an outbreak of a new coronavirus continues to grow in China and spread to other countries, the question of how the disease originated remains.

A new study in the Journal of Medical Virology hypothesizes that the disease, officially 2019-nCov, likely lives and grows in snakes. The many-banded krait and the Chinese cobra snakes believed to be sold at the Wuhan market may be sources of the novel coronavirus.

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