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Recently discovered in South Africa, the bat coronavirus NeoCov can enter the cells of the human body in the same scenario as covid (SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus). The study was published by the bioRxiv portal.
Scientists noted that in a key part of the NeoCov envelope, the appearance of just one mutation allows the virus to actively penetrate into human cells. Covid-like pathogens “live” in bats and other wildlife around the world. If contact between humans and wildlife increases, these pathogens could become the source of new pandemics, the article says.
Recall that in November last year it became known that British bats found “their own” coronavirus related to covid. It was named RhGB01. The study noted that this is the first time that sarbecovirus (a coronavirus associated with SARS, which includes SARS-CoV-2) has been detected in a lesser horseshoe bat. Prior to this, similar viruses had been found in other species of horseshoe bats in China, Southeast Asia and Eastern Europe, and this was the first time in the UK.
The new virus belongs to a subgroup of coronaviruses called sarbecoviruses that contains both SARS-CoV-2 (responsible for the current pandemic) and SARS-CoV (responsible for the initial SARS outbreak in humans in 2003).
Analyzes showed that its closest relative was found in Blasius’s bat from Bulgaria in 2008.
Source: Rosbalt
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