PROM Health Development (PHD) and Department of Wildlife and Biodiversity (DWB) of the Forestry Administration (FA) in Cambodia have a long-term joint purpose to investigate potential zoonotic reservoirs to help public health response in the wild animal Scientists have long suspected bats to be the natural reservoir for coronaviruses (severe acute respiratory syndrome). Animals have been identified as the source of many dangerous viruses, such as Nipah, Hendra, Ebola, MERS and Monkeypox.
