This laboratory reported that the Chinese horseshoe bats were natural reservoirs for the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS-CoV) which caused the 2002-3 pandemic,' the report says.

The coronavirus that conquered the world came from a thumb-sized bat tucked inside a remote Chinese cave ... the intermediate horseshoe bat. The species is part of a family of bats that act ...

in the Chinese horseshoe bat (Rhinolophus sinicus). They speculated that the bats could have been directly infecting humans, without the need for an intermediate host, throughout the course of the ...