Bats carry a very wide variety of viruses, what well-known viruses have been in it so far?

The team of researcher Shi Zhengli of the Wuhan Institute of Virology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, published its own research results. It says the new coronavirus found in Wuhan may have originated from bats, which are known to be very famous storage hosts for emerging viruses. For example, Ebola, Marburg, SARS, Hendra, Nipah, rabies, and so on. These are all among the lethal viruses that can kill people.

Then one has to ask. How do bats infect humans when they have viruses? Southeast Asia because bats are plentiful, and economic and sanitary conditions are backward, Indonesia and other countries often use bats as physical objects to be hunted and cooked. In ancient China there is no tradition of eating bats, but in some unreliable Chinese medicine texts. Bat guano, but a Chinese medicine ah, called nightshade. Although there is little scientific basis. With the increase of foreign exchange, some cities in China also consume bats. Because they promote bat life soup, bats as a blessing. Almost the bat with hair child cooking. What's more, along with the internal organs to make, bat sashimi, what is sashimi? Sashimi is something raw. Not cooked of course will cause a lot of illness.

Bats carry so many deadly viruses, yet they don't get sick. First, bats eat insects and fruits and have few natural enemies. Secondly, they are warm-blooded animals, but except for hibernation, which lowers their body temperature to the same level as the environment, they will always have a body temperature of 40 degrees. Having such a high body temperature indirectly increases their resistance to viruses. There are also reasons why it is said that a bat-related gene deletion causes the bats themselves to have very low levels of inflammation, meaning. The likelihood of inflammation that the bats themselves can get is going to be low.

And why bats can infect people, most likely because bats and humans belong to the same mammals living in similar environments, in the evolution of the two relatives, and is not particularly far away, in some of the ancient left behind the virus may be in the people and bats have viral receptors, so that to the virus across the race jump to create the conditions. That's why bird flu viruses don't readily descended on humans, and don't readily pass from person to person, because none of them are prophylactics. It is not easily transmitted to humans. I hope you can take my answer.