{"id":25779,"date":"2025-02-22T21:03:19","date_gmt":"2025-02-22T20:03:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/?p=25779"},"modified":"2025-02-22T21:03:19","modified_gmt":"2025-02-22T20:03:19","slug":"new-coronavirus-with-potential-to-cause-pandemic-discovered-in-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/?p=25779","title":{"rendered":"New coronavirus with potential to cause pandemic discovered in China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new coronavirus, HKU5-CoV-2, has been discovered in bats by researchers at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, sparking concerns of a potential spillover to humans. The virus closely resembles both SARS-CoV-2, which caused Covid-19, and MERS, a deadlier coronavirus with a high fatality rate.<\/p>\n<p>Virologist Shi Zhengli, known as \u201cBatwoman,\u201d led the study, published in Cell, warning that HKU5-CoV-2 can infiltrate human cells and poses a high zoonotic risk. The virus belongs to the merbecovirus family, which has been detected in minks and pangolins, suggesting possible cross-species transmission.<\/p>\n<p>While its potential to infect humans remains uncertain, the discovery raises fears of another pandemic, especially given ongoing debates about Covid-19\u2019s origins.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new coronavirus, HKU5-CoV-2, has been discovered in bats by researchers at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, sparking concerns of a potential spillover to humans. The virus closely resembles both SARS-CoV-2, which caused Covid-19, and MERS, a deadlier coronavirus with a high fatality rate. Virologist Shi Zhengli, known as \u201cBatwoman,\u201d led the study, published in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25779"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25779\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25780,"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25779\/revisions\/25780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}