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Why have so many of our recent diseases come from bats?

A virus that lives in a fish or a bird is less likely to be able to infect us

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Matt Ridley
Matt Ridley is the author of How Innovation Works: And Why It Flourishes in Freedom (2020), and co-author of Viral: The Search for the Origin of Covid-19 (2021)

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