CP: Close relative to SARS coronavirus found in bats

Interesting article by Helen Branswell here.

Although I have yet to read the actual scientific articles, some of the people she quotes in this news story are suggesting that although they found a similar virus to SARS, they are not the same:

Dr. Earl Brown, an expert in viral evolution at the University of Ottawa, said the bat and human viruses are probably separated by 100 years of evolution, suggesting there are other as-yet unidentified species carrying coronaviruses that gave rise to the virus that jumped into humans.

"If you're trying to link up the dots . . . there's a bunch of dots missing in between,'' Brown said.

"So there's another virus or viruses that this thing has come from. But this is the closest thing they've got on the trail of dots.''