{"id":8063,"date":"2020-02-10T06:36:43","date_gmt":"2020-02-10T06:36:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=8063"},"modified":"2020-02-10T06:36:44","modified_gmt":"2020-02-10T06:36:44","slug":"pangolin-is-a-potential-suspect-in-spreading-the-wuhan-coronavirus-to-humans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/pangolin-is-a-potential-suspect-in-spreading-the-wuhan-coronavirus-to-humans\/","title":{"rendered":"Pangolin is a potential suspect in spreading the Wuhan Coronavirus to Humans"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Chinese researchers investigating the animal origin of the\ncoronavirus outbreak in China have said that the endangered pangolin may be the\n\u201cmissing link\u201d between bats and humans. A genetic analysis showed that the\nstrain of the virus currently spreading among humans was 96% identical to that\nfound in bats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/current-affairs-quiz-2019-daily-gk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Daily Current\nAffairs Quiz 2020<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Many animals are capable of transmitting viruses to other\nspecies, and nearly all strains of coronavirus contagious to humans originated\nin wildlife. Several studies have shown that the bat-borne virus lacks the\nnecessary hardware to latch onto human cell receptors. But it\u2019s still not clear\nwhich animal is the missing link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese researchers investigating the animal origin of the coronavirus outbreak in China have said that the endangered pangolin may be the \u201cmissing link\u201d between bats and humans. A genetic analysis showed that the strain of the virus currently spreading among humans was 96% identical to that found in bats. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Many [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":8064,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[906],"tags":[447],"offerexpiration":[],"class_list":["post-8063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs-february-2020","tag-china"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8063"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8063\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8065,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8063\/revisions\/8065"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8063"},{"taxonomy":"offerexpiration","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/offerexpiration?post=8063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}