Richness of zoonotic viruses in bats and bat-human interaction pose the
indication of current and future pandemics
Abstract
Bats are a natural reservoir of many pathogenic and non-pathogenic
viruses with the chance of spill over via the intermediate host and/
directly to human. The number of zoonotic and deadly viruses especially
RNA viruses originated from bats is remarkable. The recent outbreak of
COVID 19 or SARS-Cov-2 is the novel or new version of continuation of
virus spill over the last few decades. The previous outbreaks as such
MERS, SARS predominantly infect human respiratory systems with limited
human to human transmission capability. The human interface with
wildlife along with deforestation, urbanization, overgrown population,
bush meat hunting, wildlife trade significantly increase the
reassortment of bat originated virus with other intermediate host to
jump in to human species. In this review, we discussed the history of
bat borne pathogen and the triggering factors that impose their spill
over to human for generating current and future pandemics.