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World Service,1 min

Are pangolins the source of the Covid-19 outbreak?

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60% of all infectious diseases in humans come from animals but we still don’t know which one gave us Covid-19. Many coronaviruses can be linked to bats but pass to another animal before infecting humans. So which animal does Prof Jonathan Ball, a virologist from the University of Nottingham, think could be behind Covid-19? (Image: A rolled up pangolin Credit: Getty Images)

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