{"id":106694,"date":"2020-05-07T11:42:19","date_gmt":"2020-05-07T18:42:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/bat-super-immunity-may-explain-how-bats-carry-coronaviruses"},"modified":"2020-05-07T11:42:19","modified_gmt":"2020-05-07T18:42:19","slug":"bat-super-immunity-may-explain-how-bats-carry-coronaviruses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/bat-super-immunity-may-explain-how-bats-carry-coronaviruses","title":{"rendered":"Bat \u2018super immunity\u2019 may explain how bats carry coronaviruses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/bat-super-immunity-may-explain-how-bats-carry-coronaviruses2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A University of Saskatchewan (USask) research team has uncovered how bats can carry the Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) coronavirus without getting sick\u2014research that could shed light on how coronaviruses make the jump to humans and other animals.<\/p>\n<p>Coronaviruses such as MERS, Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS), and more recently the COVID19-causing SARS-CoV-2 virus, are thought to have originated in bats. While these viruses can cause serious and often fatal disease in people, for reasons not previously well understood, bats seem unharmed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe bats don\u2019t get rid of the virus and yet don\u2019t get sick. We wanted to understand why the MERS virus doesn\u2019t shut down the bat immune responses as it does in humans,\u201d said USask microbiologist Vikram Misra.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A University of Saskatchewan (USask) research team has uncovered how bats can carry the Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) coronavirus without getting sick\u2014research that could shed light on how coronaviruses make the jump to humans and other animals. Coronaviruses such as MERS, Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS), and more recently the COVID19-causing SARS-CoV-2 virus, are [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":461,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/461"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106694\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}