Kenneth Li

nature.com/articles/s4146… Throwback to the days when I first joined the microbiology research world right after SARS. We found not only SARS-related #coronavirus in horseshoe bats, but also numerous #batcoronavirus including MERS-related HKU4 at that time.

#Bats are reservoirs of important #viruses associated with fatal infections in human, such as the #rabies virus, #Ebola virus, #Nipah virus and #Hendra virus🦇 We opened a new #SpecialIssue that covers this topic! Submit your work now: 👉mdpi.com/journal/viruse…

CoVs are difficult to culture and so do batCoVs. However, my colleague Rachel has successfully isolated HKU4 after repeated attempts and so we can start off this study, showing the potential of bat-to-human transmission of batCoVs. @hayesluk @AntonioCPWong1

nature.com/articles/s4146… Throwback to the days when I first joined the microbiology research world right after SARS. We found not only SARS-related #coronavirus in horseshoe bats, but also numerous #batcoronavirus including MERS-related HKU4 at that time.