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To: Fury

we know their bats are diseased, carrying several sars like strains, and that villagers who live near some of the bat caves have antibodies. We also know that the chicoms give tours of some of these caves, and that bats poo on the visitors. Guangdong and Yunnan provinces among others.

I did a whole write up on it with links about 2 weeks ago, maybe three if you want to mine my posts.

but here’s a quicky from NPR:
https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2020/02/20/807742861/new-research-bats-harbor-hundreds-of-coronaviruses-and-spillovers-arent-rare


1,827 posted on 03/10/2020 4:02:55 AM PDT by blueplum ( ("...this moment is your moment: it belongs to you... " President Donald J. Trump, Jan 20, 2017))
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Re: 1827 - I think the moral of the story is - don’t visit bat caves - unless you’re doing research and dimming the appropriate PPE.

Bats are reservoir species. There’s evidence that shows that flying increases their metabolism which increases their temperature, and which may protect bats from becoming symptomatic and mortalities from the viruses they carry.


1,835 posted on 03/10/2020 4:47:59 AM PDT by Fury
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To: blueplum

Very interesting article on bats and their carrying many different strains of corona viruses.


1,865 posted on 03/10/2020 7:08:39 AM PDT by Freee-dame
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