Se prima del 1872, anno in cui si concluse la spedizione scientifica Challenger, si credeva che gli abissi oceanici fossero inabitati, qualche motivo c’era. Come poter sopravvivere senza energia e luce solare e con una pressione insostenibile?
The bat is not a “plague-spreader”, it’s more like an “antivirus”
Medically speaking, bats are behind all the viral epidemics of the last decades. SARS in China, MERS in the Middle East, Nipah in Malaysia, Ebola in Africa, now Covid19. The pattern is always the same, the virus goes from bats to an intermediate host and then there is the spillover towards humans. Once again, bats have to shake off their negative reputation: they’re not the problem, they can actually be the solution…