India, Jan. 22 -- Death toll rises to 9 in China; first case detected in US; WHO to hold emergency meet

The source of the current outbreak of novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) may be a bat, according to a paper published in China Science Bulletin on January 21, 2020.

"Bats being the native host of the Wuhan CoV would be the logical and convenient reasoning, though it remains likely there was intermediate host(s) in the transmission cascade from bats to humans. Based on the unique phylogenetic position of the Wuhan CoVs, it is likely that they share with the SARS/SARS-like coronaviruses, a common ancestor that resembles the bat coronavirus HKU9-1," Chinese scientists said.

Nine people have died due to the new coronavirus (2019-nCoV) infecti...