Posted on 03/31/2020 9:17:13 PM PDT by Bigtigermike
After a detective hunt across China, researchers chasing the origin of the deadly SARS virus have finally found their smoking gun. In a remote cave in Yunnan province, virologists have identified a single population of horseshoe bats that harbours virus strains with all the genetic building blocks of the one that jumped to humans in 2002, killing almost 800 people around the world.
The killer strain could easily have arisen from such a bat population, the researchers report in PLoS Pathogens1 on 30 November. They warn that the ingredients are in place for a similar disease to emerge again.
[....] And they warn that a deadly outbreak could emerge again: the cave where the elements of SARS were found is just 1 kilometre from the nearest village, and genetic mixing among the viral strains is fast. “The risk of spillover into people and emergence of a disease similar to SARS is possible,” the authors write in their paper.
(Excerpt) Read more at nature.com ...
I’ll stick to chicken, thank you.
Here’s a wow for you:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LyFS-J-BtIQ
It’s lately been discovered that pig meat is very healthy if raised hygienically. But it’s still not kosher.
Now by “uncut” you mean they don’t even gut the dead bats? I’ve always loved far-eastern food, especially Chinese and Japanese, but that’s just wroooong.
Jewish dilemma: Lobster at half-price
Good for gun powder; too!
Imagine if THOSE things could fly!
Funny.
Here is an old joke: (found on Torch website)
Rabbi Levy is walking home from shul one Shabbos when, to his great shock and dismay, he sees Izzy, one of his congregants, walk into a non-kosher restaurant.
Not believing his eyes, he looks through the window, and sees Izzy giving his order to a waiter.
A short time later, the food arrives — a plate of shrimp, lobster and shellfish. As Izzy picks up his fork and starts to eat, Rabbi Levy bursts into the restaurant and confronts him.
“Izzy, just what do you think you are doing coming into this restaurant and ordering all this treif (non-kosher) food? Don’t you know better??
“Rabbi,” says Izzy, “did you see me enter this establishment?” “Yes.”
“And did you see me order this food?” “Yes.” “And did you see the waiter bring the food to me?” “Yes.”
“And did you then see me eat the food?” “Yes.”
“Then I don’t see a problem, Rabbi. Everything was done under full Rabbinical Supervision!”
See! This is all the NRA’s fault.
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