{"id":2303,"date":"2025-03-25T11:02:19","date_gmt":"2025-03-25T11:02:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/25\/bat-coronavirus-in-brazil-poses-danger-to-the-human-race\/"},"modified":"2025-03-25T11:02:20","modified_gmt":"2025-03-25T11:02:20","slug":"bat-coronavirus-in-brazil-poses-danger-to-the-human-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/25\/bat-coronavirus-in-brazil-poses-danger-to-the-human-race\/","title":{"rendered":"Bat coronavirus in Brazil poses danger to the human race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>2025-03-25 11:02:19<\/b><br \/>\n<BR>A new coronavirus discovered in bats in Brazil could present a serious threat to humans.<BR><br \/>\nThe virus, which has been identified by scientists in Sao Paulo and Ceara, shares alarming similarities with the killer Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) &#8211; also known as camel flu.<BR><br \/>\nThe World Health Organisation (WHO) says that camel flu is less infectious than Covid but it is more deadly as it kills a third of known patients.<BR><br \/>\nScientists say that the new virus found in Brazil has a genetic sequence that&#8217;s about 72 per cent similar to the MERS genome.<BR><br \/>\nIts spike protein &#8211; the part of the virus that helps it attach to and enter human cells &#8211; also shares 71.74 per cent similarity with the MERS spike protein.<BR><br \/>\nStudy author and PhD candidate Bruna Stefanie Silverio said: &#8220;Right now we aren&#8217;t sure it can infect humans.<BR><br \/>\n&#8220;But we detected parts of the virus&#8217;s spike protein suggesting potential interaction with the receptor used by Mers-CoV.&#8221;<BR><br \/>\nFurther experiments will take place at high-biosecurity labs in Hong Kong to establish the danger that the virus poses to human beings.<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"> Visit Bang Bizarre (main website) <\/a><br \/>\n<br \/><script src=\"https:\/\/geo.dailymotion.com\/player\/xtbac.js\" data-video=\"\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2025-03-25 11:02:19 A new coronavirus discovered in bats in Brazil could present a serious threat to humans. The virus, which has been identified by scientists in Sao Paulo and Ceara,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2304,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bizarre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2303"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2303\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2305,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2303\/revisions\/2305"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}