Not so fast, said Vikram Misra, a bat expert and microbiologist at the University of Saskatchewan. "The exact viruses, the very viruses that cause disease in people and other animals, those have not been found in bats." But bats may also be the key to better understanding COVID-19 and finding a way to fight it. Vikram Misra, a microbiologist at the University of Saskatchewan, recently discovered why bats spread other coronaviruses so well, while the bats themselves seem immune. "We don't work with COVID-19, we work with other coronaviruses.

Source: CBC News May 07, 2020 18:11 UTC