Posted on 01/24/2020 9:41:21 AM PST by Red Badger
The first people who contracted the deadly new coronavirus sweeping through Asia were infected when the virus jumped from animals to humans, and a new report points to the original animal source: bats.
Scientists from the Wuhan Institute for Virology — located in China’s epicenter of the outbreak, now under quarantine — published a paper Thursday that confirmed the fast-spreading virus is in the same family as the severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) virus that hit Asia in 2003 and killed almost 800 people, and Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS).
Based on oral swabs, anal swabs, and blood collected from seven patients at Jinyintan Hospital in Wuhan, the scientists were able to genetically sequence the virus. Then they tested it against a database of known viruses and found a 96.2% match with a coronavirus known to live in bats, which is also believed to be the source of the SARS and MERS outbreaks.
Ebola, the deadly virus that killed more than 11,000 people in West Africa between 2013 and 2016, is also believed to have originated from bats.
The researchers found that the new virus uses the same receptors as SARS to hack into a victim’s lungs, causing symptoms such as coughing, headaches, and pneumonia. This paper is the first to describe the new virus, dubbed nCoV-2019, in detail.
The outbreak is believed to have originated at a meat and seafood market in Wuhan where live animals were slaughtered and wild animals were also sold.
Another report from China earlier this week claimed that the coronavirus may have originated in snakes, which were reportedly sold in the Wuhan market. However, that report also suggested that since snakes hunt bats in the wild, they could have been the original source of the virus.
The new coronavirus, like SARS and MERS, is a zoonotic viral disease, meaning the first patients who were infected acquired these viruses directly from animals.
Since it emerged last month, the new virus has killed 26 people and infected 830, most of whom are in Wuhan, where authorities are trying to fast-track a new, 1000-bed hospital in just six days.
The outbreak has come at the worst time for China as hundreds of millions of people will travel long distances this weekend to celebrate Lunar New Year, making the task of containing the spread of the virus much harder.
In a bid to stop the virus spreading, authorities have imposed strict travel restrictions on 10 cities in the central province of Hubei, effectively locking down some 30 million people.
But these efforts come after the virus has already spread to almost all areas of China, and internationally to Thailand, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Macau, Vietnam, South Korea, Japan, and the U.S., where a second confirmed case was reported in Chicago on Friday.
sex with farm animals again?
Yesterday, it was snakes.
The place in China that started this mess people sell and eat dang near anything that moves, crawls, flies or slithers around.....................
That’s what I heard last night too. Is walmart clearing their shelves of bats and snake parts?
Snakes eat bats..................
Is there anything these people won’t eat?
Read the article: Snakes eat bats.
I only eat domestic bats.
King Arthur:
Consult the Book of Armaments.
Brother Maynard:
Armaments, chapter two, verses nine through twenty-one.
Cleric: [reading]
And Saint Attila raised the hand grenade up on high, saying, “O Lord, bless this thy hand grenade, that with it thou mayst blow thine enemies to tiny bits, in thy mercy.” And the Lord did grin. And the people did feast upon the lambs, and sloths, and carp, and anchovies, and orangutans, and breakfast cereals, and fruit bats, and large chu...
Brother Maynard:
Skip a bit, Brother...
Good old American bats for me, too.......................
Dang, stopped me JUST in time! Was just about to pop some of my microwavable bat nuggets into my pie hole!
Maybe in a dew days it will be the Biowarfare/ Viral research lab in Wuhan.
Seems like a big coincidence. And a HUGE lock down by the Chi-Coms over wide spread sniffles.
Then building a 1000+ bed hospital overnight?
Apparently not...............
DO NOT EAT BATS FROM CHINA.
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Stick with free range, all natural American bats!
The Chinese are seemingly in full panic mode.......................
The Chinese will kill and eat anything.
They do not believe in the Humane Slaughter of Animals.
They believe that torturing an Animal to death enhances the flavor of the Meat.
I wonder why all these Animal Rights Activists never go there to address this? I guess they think the same way as the Envirowacks who protest the USA but not the real Polluters of the World.
Now the Chinese are reaping what they sow. Too bad it may affect the entire World.
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