> Is there a historical track record for finding the natural virus
SARS-1 [1]:
> The viral outbreak was subsequently genetically traced to a colony of cave-dwelling horseshoe bats in Yunnan, China.
The Guardian reference [2] states:
> Hence the efforts of Chinese scientists – led by Shi Zheng-Li and Cui Jie of the Wuhan Institute of Virology, China – to trace the source of the outbreak. Scientists initially suspected that civet cats, sold in markets in China, were the source of the virus but later turned their attention to bats, which they realised were the prime source of the virus. Civets were merely an intermediary.
SARS-1 [1]:
> The viral outbreak was subsequently genetically traced to a colony of cave-dwelling horseshoe bats in Yunnan, China.
The Guardian reference [2] states:
> Hence the efforts of Chinese scientists – led by Shi Zheng-Li and Cui Jie of the Wuhan Institute of Virology, China – to trace the source of the outbreak. Scientists initially suspected that civet cats, sold in markets in China, were the source of the virus but later turned their attention to bats, which they realised were the prime source of the virus. Civets were merely an intermediary.
[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Severe_acute_respiratory_syn...
[2] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/dec/10/sars-virus-bat...