Scientists discover six new coronaviruses in bats

By Zach Halaschak

Published April 12, 2020 8:40pm ET

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Scientists discover six new coronaviruses in bats — FILE - In this Jan. 27, 2009 file photo, a radio transmitter is inserted into a little brown bat in an abandoned mine in Rosendale, N.Y. A 2018 survey of several cave-dwelling bat species in New Hampshire found very few spent their winters in abandoned mines and other locations that were once popular for them during the winter. Biologists said the numbers are the latest indication that the bats have yet to recover from a fungal disease known as white-nose syndrome. | (Mike Groll/AP)

Researchers say they found six new bat-borne coronaviruses.

The viruses are different from the one currently killing people around the world and others that cause severe infections in humans, but they are in the same family, according to Live Science. Researchers announced the findings on Friday after surveying bats in Myanmar from 2016 to 2018 as part of the United States Agency for International Development’s Emerging Pandemic Threats program.

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