Jade Wilson Bloomberg

The new coronavirus appears to have circulated unnoticed in bats for decades, scientists found. Horseshoe bats are the most plausible origin of the SARS-CoV-2 pathogen, researchers led by Maciej Boni of Pensylvania State University's Center for Infectious Disease Dynamics said in a study published Tuesday in Nature Microbiology.

The new coronavirus appears to have circulated unnoticed in bats for decades, scientists found. Horseshoe bats are the most plausible origin of the SARS-CoV-2 pathogen, researchers led by Maciej Boni of Pensylvania State University's Center for Infectious Disease Dynamics said in a study published Tuesday in Nature Microbiology.