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Yavin4

(37,182 posts) Sat Mar 14, 2020, 02:12 PM Mar 2020

Why new diseases keep appearing in China

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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Though this origin story is no longer valid for the Corona virus TomVilmer Mar 2020 #4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

(8,148 posts)

1. Good, but painful for animal lovers. Could not finish it. Agree we need to know and wet markets

Reply to Yavin4 (Original post)

Sat Mar 14, 2020, 02:29 PM

Mar 2020

no more cruel than our dairy and meat practices.

demosincebirth

(12,833 posts)

2. With over billion people it's hard to control

Reply to emmaverybo (Reply #1)

Sat Mar 14, 2020, 03:07 PM

Mar 2020

Good sanitation.

emmaverybo

(8,148 posts)

3. Yes. I am not faulting.

Reply to demosincebirth (Reply #2)

Sat Mar 14, 2020, 03:24 PM

Mar 2020

TomVilmer

(1,970 posts)

4. Though this origin story is no longer valid for the Corona virus

Reply to Yavin4 (Original post)

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

magicguido

(6,315 posts)

5. Where is our Vaccine Manhattan Project???

Reply to Yavin4 (Original post)

Sat Mar 14, 2020, 06:37 PM

Mar 2020

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