{"id":38978,"date":"2022-03-13T14:00:26","date_gmt":"2022-03-13T14:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=38978"},"modified":"2022-03-13T14:00:26","modified_gmt":"2022-03-13T14:00:26","slug":"do-bats-carry-deadly-viruses-yes-would-a-cull-help-no-heres-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=38978","title":{"rendered":"Do bats carry deadly viruses? Yes. Would a cull help? No. Here\u2019s why"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostOne summer afternoon in 2020, Beijing resident Chen Daming spotted a bat outside his flat. It seemed to be flying round and round the hallway, looking for a way to get out.He would have tried to catch it himself and set it free out of the window, but not this time. The Covid-19 pandemic had emerged earlier that year, and Chen was aware of the theory that the novel coronavirus behind the disease could have originated in bats. So, he called building management to take care of the animal.\u201cI had to\u2026<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/science\/article\/3169976\/do-bats-carry-deadly-viruses-yes-would-cull-help-no-heres-why?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostOne summer afternoon in 2020, Beijing resident Chen Daming spotted a bat outside his flat. It seemed to be flying round and round the&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":38979,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38978"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38978\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/38979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}