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Did Humans catch the Sars virus from Animals?

Was the Sars virus passed to humans from animals in the recent epidemic?

Chinese study of the recent Sars (severe acute respiratory syndrome) epidemic shows the coronavirus was probably passed from animals into humans. Looking at grains of rock that are stardust, older than Earth itself. Is a fossilised jaw bone discovered in Belgium that of a prehistoric legged fish called ichthyostega, and how might it be related to one found in Greenland? Deep-sea imaging reveals a "fossil" lifeform alive and well.

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大象传媒 World Service Archive

This programme was restored as part of the World Service archive project

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