ACCDIS scientists were part of the expert group who explained that, according to a study by the University of Hong Kong in 2007, it had already been warned that bat coronavirus, along with the culture of eating exotic mammals in southern China were a time bomb for the emergence of new viruses. Being covid-19, Avian Influenza, swine or Spanish Influenza examples of zoonosis, i.e. the transmission of diseases from animals to humans.

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