one species is particularly effective in transmission barson. facts. of the wu han institute of viral a-g. . has spent many years identifying viruses in bats. job has earned her the nickname woman. in early january she identified a black bars that was 96 percent identical to the virus found in patients suffering from carded 19 it's the closest match found so far. since the start of the crisis the scientists has said listen publicly coronavirus expert john epstein has worked in the field with in china we found that bats and specifically a certain type of bad the horse that was found to carry multiple coronaviruses that were closely related in the family tree of coronaviruses that were sars like are closely related to sars genetically and that really reinforced and provided strong evidence for the idea that these bats are the natural reservoir of the original source of this group of viruses. to trace the origins of carbon on tape we want to explore why bats a reservoir of bars. our investigation takes us to gabble on the west coast of africa. 85 percent