{"id":106303,"date":"2025-10-29T02:46:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T02:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/106303\/"},"modified":"2025-10-29T02:46:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T02:46:07","slug":"coronavirus-found-in-brazilian-bats-expands-global-map-of-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/106303\/","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus Found in Brazilian Bats Expands Global Map of Risk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">A coronavirus carrying a genetic feature found in the viruses that cause Covid-19 and MERS has been discovered in bats in Brazil, expanding the known global range of batborne viruses capable of jumping into other species.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">The virus, named BRZ batCoV, was detected in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inaturalist.org\/taxa\/41221-Pteronotus-parnellii\" title=\"Link to Bat Information\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">Pteronotus parnellii<\/a> \u2014 a small insect-eating \u201cmustached\u201d bat common across Latin America. The samples were collected in the states of Maranhao and Sao Paulo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A coronavirus carrying a genetic feature found in the viruses that cause Covid-19 and MERS has been discovered&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":106304,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[190,28174,2300,575,138,2814,134,527,23711,5107,111,139,69,9596,37296,31955,1900],"class_list":{"0":"post-106303","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health","8":"tag-africa","9":"tag-americas","10":"tag-asia","11":"tag-brazil","12":"tag-business","13":"tag-coronavirus","14":"tag-health","15":"tag-healthcare","16":"tag-latin-america","17":"tag-middle-east","18":"tag-new-zealand","19":"tag-newzealand","20":"tag-nz","21":"tag-osaka","22":"tag-prognosis","23":"tag-pursuits","24":"tag-sao-paulo"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106303\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/106304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}