It is likely that the corona virus that infects humans has been present in bats' bodies for decades, but has not been detected.

A recent research has shown that the corona virus, responsible for Kovid-19 disease, was found in bats 40 and 70 years before the known virus. Scientists believe that this virus may have reached humans now.

They have said that along with this, the concept theory running on the origin of this virus has also come under suspicion that the virus was prepared in the lab or started spreading from there.

Professor David Robertson of the University of Glasgow, who worked on a research published in the journal Nature Microbiology, says the Sars-CoV2 virus responsible for the pandemic is genetically close to the virus found in bats, but both have decades of time. Is the difference.

"It means that the virus that infects humans was present for some time," he says. But we still do not know when and how it came to humans? If we believe that this is a common virus found in bats, then in this case we need a more sharp look, we have to monitor it further. ''

Professor David says that in order to not spread further epidemics in future, we will not only have to monitor the infection in humans but also have to sample wild bats. They say that if these viruses were present for decades, they must have found other animals to spread their legs, that is, to infect.

For this research, the researchers matched the genetic code of the Kovid-19 disease-causing Sars-CoV2 virus to RaTG13 found in similar bats.

Researchers found that their two ancestors are the same, but in the process of evolution, the two had separated from each other decades ago.

Professor Mark Pejal of the University of Reading is not part of this research. He says the point of this research is that the corona virus that infects humans was already present in bats 40 to 70 years ago but could not be detected.

He says, "This research shows how large the scope of infection from animals to humans is." It is possible that many viruses causing disease in humans are present in the body of the animal but we do not know about them.

These viruses may have spread from one animal to another, and they have infected people associated with the business of wild animals.

Earlier research showed that pangolin may have a major role in the origin of Sars-CoV2, but according to recent research it is not.

It may be that Pangolin also got the virus from contact with other animals during the occupation of wild animals.

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