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fyo
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« Reply #118 on: March 30, 2020, 02:04:15 pm » |
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Did somebody really cause this by eating a bat?
No. 1. No one knows if the source was a bat (although bat or pangolin are a likely source). There are a lot of different strains of corona viruses present in both, but none have been found that matches SARS-CoV-2. 2. Eating something is not a likely infection pathway. More likely handling of the animal / guano, either during capture, sales or slaughter. 3. The entire question is poorly framed, assigning individual guilt where none applies. If a burger chain sold an infected product, would you say the consumer who happened to buy that product 4. Current best guess at a "patient zero" is a specific woman who worked in a food stall in the wet market in Wuhan and contacted her doctor on 11 December. There are indications that there were infections prior to this elsewhere, though. That's the problem when the source hasn't been identified. It's not like this virus was present in only ONE animal and infected only ONE person. More likely, the virus is present in a population of bats or pangolins and has jumped to humans on more than one occasion (and could so again unless the source population is found and dealt with). |
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