The only way that we knew how to grow it reliably was to grow it in its natural host: cows.

那目前我们所知道的唯一途径就是,利用它的自然宿主,奶牛

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But no one knows which disease will be next, what animal will be its natural host, where it will happen, or how dangerous it will be.

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Until researchers can determine what animal is the natural host of the virus, and how MERS spreads from the host to humans, each new outbreak is dangerous and mysterious.

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Placing unaccompanied children and orphans with host families proved a natural solution.

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