Six miners fell ill after removing bat faeces

The doctor who treated the six miners sent sample tissue to a lab in Wuhan who found it to be a SARS-like coronavirus from a Chinese rufous horseshoe bat. Pictured, scientists swab bats to try and find the origins of Covid-19. Scientists believe that the virus could actually have began 1,000 miles away from the wet market in Wuhan. Six miners fell ill with a pneumonia-like virus in the Mojiang mine in southwestern China’s Yunnan province eight years ago. The miners had spent two weeks removing bat faeces resulting in three of them dying from the virus.