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Why new diseases keep appearing in China (Original Post)
Yavin4
Mar 2020
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emmaverybo
(8,144 posts)1. Good, but painful for animal lovers. Could not finish it. Agree we need to know and wet markets
no more cruel than our dairy and meat practices.
demosincebirth
(12,537 posts)2. With over billion people it's hard to control
Good sanitation.
emmaverybo
(8,144 posts)3. Yes. I am not faulting.
TomVilmer
(1,832 posts)4. Though this origin story is no longer valid for the Corona virus
... 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
https://www.livescience.com/first-case-coronavirus-found.html
magicguido
(6,315 posts)5. Where is our Vaccine Manhattan Project???