Chinese Coronavirus Outbreak Traced Back To Snakes, Study Finds

Study Finds ^ | January 23, 2020 | John Anderer

[C19fan]

I was talking to a co-worker originally from China. She mentioned this now notorious seafood market is right next to the maim train station of Wuhan.

[Pearls Before Swine]

I read another article which claimed that the initial attribution to snakes was incorrect; instead the source is bats.

We’ll see.

[C19fan]

From the article the virus originated in bats then was transmitted to snakes then to humans. One has to keep in mind the virus was recombining with other viruses during its development.

[OpusatFR]

Laboratory snakes...or bats?

[real saxophonist]

Don’t some Chinese believe that consuming certain parts of snakes or bats increases sexual energy?

[C19fan]

Hell no this is China...People eat them.

[Red Badger]

Bats, snakes, lions and tigers and bears!.......Oh my!...................

[C19fan]

It seems like every animal has that trait in Chinese medicine..

[BBQToadRibs]

I just can’t imagine bats having much meat on them. I wonder if you just breast them out like a dove or other small game birds.

[blackdog]

I defer to Jim Stafford on the subject.

[blackdog]

They roast and smoke the bats. Crunchy.

[Tax-chick]

Nature. It wants to kill us.

[Moonman62]

That reminds of the French who eat crunchy small birds whole.

[LibWhacker]

We need more diversity in the foods we eat.

Chinese Krait, anyone?

[Cold Heart]

Snakes. Why did it have to be snakes.

Having said that, I remember carrying container loads of live snakes between Asian ports.

[HK_Kai_Chung]

No.
Chinese Coronavirus Outbreak Traced Back To Chinese culture and Communist Totalitarianism, Study Finds

[BuffaloJack]

“Don’t some Chinese believe that consuming certain parts of snakes or bats increases sexual energy?”

Absolutely !!!
But there is than death side effect you have to deal with.

[Cowboy Bob]

Beware the one-eyed trouser snake.

[RitchieAprile]

not much meat on a chicken wing either, yet people eat them. food is food.

when you’re hungry, its amazing when
you’ll eat.

[LibWhacker]

Oops, that’s the Chinese cobra, I believe. Just as tasty, though.