Misconceptions and misinformation about bats and viruses

Résumé fourni par la source

In recent decades, the role of bats, order Chiroptera, as potential reservoirs for several zoonotic viruses has received considerable attention. This has dramatically increased since the emergence of the SARS-CoV-2 virus causing COVID-19, resulting in numerous recent reviews. Unfortunately, some of these contain outdated or false statements and incomplete treatments and/or misinterpretations of the published literature, such as Bonilla-Aldana et al. (2021). We herein report the main problems with their paper and illustrate our point with examples; a complete enumeration would be too extensive.

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