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Why new diseases keep appearing in China (Original Post) Yavin4 Mar 2020 OP
Good, but painful for animal lovers. Could not finish it. Agree we need to know and wet markets emmaverybo Mar 2020 #1
With over billion people it's hard to control demosincebirth Mar 2020 #2
Yes. I am not faulting. emmaverybo Mar 2020 #3
Though this origin story is no longer valid for the Corona virus TomVilmer Mar 2020 #4
Where is our Vaccine Manhattan Project??? magicguido Mar 2020 #5

emmaverybo

(8,144 posts)
1. Good, but painful for animal lovers. Could not finish it. Agree we need to know and wet markets
Sat Mar 14, 2020, 02:29 PM
Mar 2020

no more cruel than our dairy and meat practices.

TomVilmer

(1,832 posts)
4. Though this origin story is no longer valid for the Corona virus
Sat Mar 14, 2020, 04:57 PM
Mar 2020
... the first person to have contracted COVID-19 dates back to Nov. 17. That's more than a month earlier than doctors noted cases in Wuhan, China. Authorities suspected the virus stemmed from something sold at a wet market in the city. However, it's now clear that some infected people had no connection to the market. Scientists now suspect this coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, originated in a bat and somehow hopped to another animal, possibly the pangolin, which then passed it on to humans. The disease is now spreading between people without any animal intermediary. ...

https://www.livescience.com/first-case-coronavirus-found.html
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