With human activity increasingly overlapping the habitats of bats, diseases outbreaks resulted   from spillover of bat coronaviruses will continue to occur in the future despite the fact that direct transmission of bat coronaviruses to humans  appears to be rare. To better prepare ourselves in predicting and preventing the next emergence of coronovirus disease, it is necessary to maintain our vigilance in long-term coronavirus surveillance studies in bats as well as in other wildlife and livestock.