Pangolins should be considered possible hosts of coronavirus, scientists say

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"111265417"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"2">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div><p>Pangolins should be considered as possible hosts of coronavirus&comma; scientists have said&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Researchers in Hong Kong and China claim to have found viruses in the scaly mammals which are closely related to the one responsible for the Covid-19 outbreak&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The team analysed samples taken from more than 30 Malayan pangolins seized during anti-smuggling operations between August 2017 and January 2019&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>They detected two groups of coronaviruses related to the new virus behind the human pandemic&comma; called Sars-CoV-2&comma; in some of the animals smuggled into China&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>But the researchers said the role of pangolins as the intermediate host of the disease remains to be confirmed&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>However&comma; in a paper published in the journal Nature&comma; they said the findings suggest handling pangolins &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;requires considerable caution” and that the sale of these animals in wet markets &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;should be strictly prohibited”&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>They added further surveillance is needed to understand the role of the animals in the emergence of coronaviruses&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Pangolins&comma; which are classified as threatened with extinction by the International Union for Conservation of Nature &lpar;IUCN&rpar;&comma; are said to be the most widely trafficked mammals in the world&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The animals&comma; which are native to Asia&comma; are used as both a food source and their scales are utilised in traditional Chinese medicine&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Bats are thought to be the original source of Sars-CoV-2&comma; with another species being an intermediate host before zoonotic &lpar;animal to human&rpar; transmission&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Outside of bats&comma; pangolins are the only mammals reported to date that have been found to be infected with a coronavirus related to Sars-Cov-2&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The researchers said their findings highlight &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;a potentially important role” for the animals in the ecology of coronaviruses&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The researchers wrote in their paper&colon; <em>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;The discovery of multiple lineages of pangolin coronavirus and their similarity to Sars-CoV-2 suggests that pangolins should be considered as possible hosts in the emergence of novel coronaviruses and should be removed from wet markets to prevent zoonotic transmission&period;”<&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div style&equals;"padding-bottom&colon;15px&semi;" class&equals;"wordads-tag" data-slot-type&equals;"belowpost">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div id&equals;"atatags-dynamic-belowpost-68ed122a38137">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<script type&equals;"text&sol;javascript">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;window&period;getAdSnippetCallback &equals; 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