A study was conducted by DZIF Professor Christian Drosten (Institute of Virology at the University Hospital of Bonn) and his crew. In this study they found that one of the four coronaviruses responsible for the human cold might actually have originated from camels. Researchers tested about 1,000 camels. They believe that the HCoV-229E coronavirus at one point in history jumped over to infect humans. To test this they isolated the common cold virus from live camels and to there suprise the virus entered the same receptors as the HCoV-229E virus. They also disovered that the common cold virus mutated to allow it to spread among humans.
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/08/160818093438.htm
http://www.sciencealert.com/one-of-the-common-cold-viruses-originated-in-camels-study-finds
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