{"id":137,"date":"2020-02-10T20:03:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-10T20:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/investigative.earth\/?p=137"},"modified":"2026-03-17T20:05:00","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T20:05:00","slug":"could-pangolins-be-a-piece-of-the-coronavirus-puzzle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/investigative.earth\/?p=137","title":{"rendered":"Could pangolins be a piece of the coronavirus puzzle?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Researchers in Guangzhou said pangolins are a possible \u201cintermediate host\u201d of the novel coronavirus that has killed more than 630 people in China.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We\u2019re looking into their findings and will share more detailed information as soon as possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/myanmar-now.org\/en\/news\/chinese-researchers-pangolins-may-host-coronavirus\"><strong>Read here<\/strong><\/a>&nbsp;our report at Myanmar Now, and the South China Morning Post\u2019s&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/science\/article\/3049538\/could-pangolins-be-piece-coronavirus-puzzle\"><strong>report<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/theinitium.com\/article\/20200208-whatsnew-coronavirus-pangolin-update\/\"><strong>Here\u2019s our report<\/strong><\/a>&nbsp;in Chinese at Initium Media.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.investigative.earth\/news\/tag\/China\">China<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers in Guangzhou said pangolins are a possible \u201cintermediate host\u201d of the novel coronavirus that has killed more than 630 people in China. We\u2019re looking into their findings and will share more detailed information as soon as possible. Read here&nbsp;our report at Myanmar Now, and the South China Morning Post\u2019s&nbsp;report. Here\u2019s our report&nbsp;in Chinese at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":138,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-updates"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/investigative.earth\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/investigative.earth\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/investigative.earth\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investigative.earth\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investigative.earth\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=137"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/investigative.earth\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":139,"href":"https:\/\/investigative.earth\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137\/revisions\/139"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investigative.earth\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/investigative.earth\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investigative.earth\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investigative.earth\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}