Searching for SARS-CoV-2 Along Mekong/Lancang R. Basin

Ungated Web Archive [1] of The hunt for the origins of SARS-CoV-2 will look beyond China. Horseshoe bats in Yunnan Province are found near the Lancang River, the northern section of the Mekong [2] in Southeast Asia.

Some horseshoe bats practice nighttime perch feeding [3] which places their guano in close proximity to the nocturnal arboreal animals [4][5][6] known to be good candidates for a natural recombinant event [7].

[1] http://archive.is/8CRuh#selection-583.0-583.61

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mekong

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horseshoe_bat#Diet_and_foragin...

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pangolin#Behavior

[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asian_palm_civet#Behaviour_and...

[6] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raccoon_dog

[7] https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.02.10.942748v2