Key find leads to the origin of the coronavirus

Berlin The current pandemic is not a natural disaster. It didn’t just come over us like an earthquake or an asteroid impact. Rather, warnings have been given for a long time about the growing danger of animal viruses spreading to humans, a zoonosis.

Because more and more people are coming into contact with animals. In nature, into which more and more civilizations are penetrating, through food, in livestock farming, at animal markets. But the danger was ignored. Sars-Cov-2 jumped over.

However, how this happened, whether it got into human lungs directly from bats or via an intermediate host, whether a trader at the animal market in Wuhan became infected first or an employee of the Chinese city’s virology laboratory, all of this is still a mystery in detail.