"China bans trade, eating of wild animals in battle against coronavirus"
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AvidIndoorsman
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New Coronavirus 'Won't Be The Last' Outbreak To Move From Animal To Human
Science writer David Quammen says the new coronavirus is the latest example of the way pathogens are migrating from animals to humans with increasing frequency — and sometimes deadly consequences.
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Come on. More prevalent?
I'm no trumper, but really?
This is the overhype that is both not supported in fact, nor relevant.
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LF Wang et al. were studying spillover of SARS-CoV (coronavirus) from Civets (with bats as the reservoir) as early as 2002.
Antibodies to SARS Coronavirus in Civets
Using three different assays, we examined 103 serum samples collected from different civet farms and a market in China in June 2003 and January 2004. While civets on farms were largely free from SARS-CoV infection, ≈80% of the animals from one ...
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Quammen's book came out in 2012.
Point being we have been worried about this specific issue, Civets in market's in China causing an outbreak of coronavirus for almost 20 years, which is why I was incredulous of your post from the get go.
Like I said I'm not an expert or anything close to it... but I have been having dinner conversations about something like this happening for almost a decade.
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These initially far away diseases often seem distant and unlikely to impact us. I’m currently enjoying (yet another) great beer in Denmark. My trip this week was supposed to be 1/2 deciding how to start a new plant in Denmark and 1/2 visiting a vendor in Milan. Turns out we’ve had to cancel our Milan visit from the exploding Coronavirus cases there, including infection risk, risk we couldn’t get out of the country, and risk we’d be quarantined post-return. These risks really hit you when you have a very young kid at home. We are also close to running out of inventory from China’s issues. Everyone is slightly freaking out as it is a huge test for the open-borders EU.
If you haven’t already, my stock advice is sell, sell, sell then buy, buy, buy. I predict this will hit US shores soon in an expansionary way, and be slow to stop.
If you haven’t already, my stock advice is sell, sell, sell then buy, buy, buy. I predict this will hit US shores soon in an expansionary way, and be slow to stop.
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I thought they'd identified it as https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pangolin
Which according to nat geo is the most trafficked animal on the planet (I think, I got lazy and didn't want to actually look it up).
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Starting to get past my knowledge here, but I believe bats are the reservoir and then another critter are the amplifier host... historically civets were the species studied by epidemiologists with regard to coronavirus, I have seen articles mentioning pangolins with this strain. Pigs, horses, cows, mongoose, monkeys, as well as a ton of other species can be amplifiers.
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Spot on. I was thinking of going back and pulling up the responses from WY questionnaire on CWD and see if anyone wants to change their answer.
Spot on. I was thinking of going back and pulling up the responses from WY questionnaire on CWD and see if anyone wants to change their answer.
you don’t even need to go that far. Look at the comments from blow hards on here in recent CWD treads.
Everything is joke until one day it isn’. History is full of one days.
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My wife works for NIH, and refers to Dr Anthony Fauci, the head of NIAID as the big boss. You may have heard of him, he's been on a lot of media regarding the Coronavirus lately and is a smart and savvy man.
www.niaid.nih.gov
He routinely informs the rank and file that funding for NIAID has been solid under all administrations, even under Trump. Amazingly sad how everyone likes to try to politicize everything.
At any rate, the coronavirus is here in the Bitterroot, and a lot people around country and around the world are working overtime on it right now.
missoulian.com
Anthony S. Fauci, M.D.
Background information and profile of NIAID Director, Anthony S. Fauci, M.D.
He routinely informs the rank and file that funding for NIAID has been solid under all administrations, even under Trump. Amazingly sad how everyone likes to try to politicize everything.
At any rate, the coronavirus is here in the Bitterroot, and a lot people around country and around the world are working overtime on it right now.
Hamilton lab releases new images of coronavirus
New images of the novel coronavirus were released Friday from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases’ Rocky Mountain Laboratories in Hamilton.
Nameless Range
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China's version of the CDC released this about a week ago. I suppose you could be skeptical but I don't see much reason they would lie about rates. No doubt the N has changed but I bet the percentages are similar, and I wonder how much China's medical system figures into this.
For me it kind of puts things in perspective. This disease is far more dangerous to the old than the young.
For me it kind of puts things in perspective. This disease is far more dangerous to the old than the young.
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hmmmmm well I guess the upside of corona is that my odds at a sheep tag might improve.
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Savage... lol..
Southern Elk
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There’s a conspiracy theory for you. Virus unleashed to increase odds of drawing a sheep tag.
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That and often the air quality is so bad the central government recommends that residents where particulate masks....
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Stuff like this often makes me think that some unseen guiding force in the universe is trying to get us, the collective all of us, to take seriously the need to take care of this place and its flora and fauna. Not only disease but hell even the dove population in Texas disappeared more than ever could be thought! I'm saying this all tongue in check, but ….. wondering ….
BigHornRam
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hmmmm nothing like a less than subtle push off the boomer cliff by you young pups..........
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