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December 03, 2021

Internal newsletter of the Institut Pasteur

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CORONAVIRUS

Virus related to SARS-CoV-2 found in bats in Cambodia

What are the origins of SARS-CoV-2? This is the world’s most pressing scientific puzzle, whose pieces scattered around the world scientists are attempting to collect in search of a suspect in the largest health crisis to ever hit the globe in the past century. Scientists at the Institut Pasteur in Paris and the Institut Pasteur du Cambodge have identified a coronavirus in bats in Cambodia whose genome is 92.6% related to SARS-CoV-2.

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