Originally Posted by
Stickshift3000
More likely that bats (either wild or in captivity awaiting being cooked & eaten) have transmitted the virus to humans through faecal matter and poor human hygiene practices.
Bats are known to be very good virus reservoirs. There are many historic cases in Australia of bats spreading hantavirus (and other pathogens) through faecal matter into horse water troughs, which subsequently killed the horses. Obviously when viruses inevitably mutate some mutations can be far more deadly to humans.
Yes I'm sure if you mess around with bat **** you'll also get sick but there's a lot of information out there that indicates they were also EATING bats and other animals from the food hall, market, whatever, which weren't really up to scratch and now they all have a disease.