I think it’s probably a virus that was merely identified in pangolins, but whose primary host is probably not pangolins.
The pangolins they sequenced weren’t asymptomatic carriers at all; they were sad smuggled specimens that were dying of many different diseases simultaneously.
I looked into this semi-recently, and wrote up something here.
The pangolins were apprehended in Guangxi, which shares some of its border with Yunnan. Neither of these provinces are directly contiguous with Hubei (Wuhan’s province), fwiw. (map)
I think it’s probably a virus that was merely identified in pangolins, but whose primary host is probably not pangolins.
The pangolins they sequenced weren’t asymptomatic carriers at all; they were sad smuggled specimens that were dying of many different diseases simultaneously.
I looked into this semi-recently, and wrote up something here.
The pangolins were apprehended in Guangxi, which shares some of its border with Yunnan. Neither of these provinces are directly contiguous with Hubei (Wuhan’s province), fwiw. (map)