Future pandemic could stem from coronavirus transmitted from humans back to bat: Expert

(From left) Dr Richard Hatchett, Professor Teo Yik Ying and Professor Ooi Eng Eong during the Special Ministerial Conference for Asean Digital Public Health at Temasek Shophouse on Oct 6, 2021.- ST

SINGAPORE (The Straits Times/Asia News Network): A new challenge that countries may possibly face in the future is the emergence of a new SARS-CoV-3 virus arising from humans transmitting the coronavirus back to bats.

Known as reverse-zoonosis, this occurs when infectious viruses are transmitted from humans back to animals, said Professor Wang Linfa from the Duke-NUS Emerging Infectious Diseases (EID) programme.