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Where could the next coronavirus jump to humans? New research offers clues.
Vox via MSN ^ | 5/31/21 | Benji Jones

Posted on 05/31/2021 3:31:47 PM PDT by Libloather

For well over a year we’ve been living through the devastating consequences of a highly transmissible coronavirus. While the pandemic it caused is unprecedented by many measures, the novel coronavirus that causes Covid-19 is just one of many SARS-related coronaviruses lurking among wildlife in some regions of the world, many of which could theoretically jump to human populations under the right conditions.

Figuring out what those conditions are is an urgent priority, and scientists have made a lot of progress on that front. They’ve learned, for example, that when forests get fragmented by deforestation or roads, it increases the likelihood of a virus “spilling over” from animal to human. What’s more of a mystery is where, exactly, those conditions come together to create the highest risk for the next coronavirus emergence.

A new analysis, published Monday in the journal Nature Food, begins to answer that important question — specifically, by pinpointing where another coronavirus could jump to humans from horseshoe bats, which are known to carry SARS-related coronaviruses. By combining data on horseshoe bat habitats, land-use change, human population density, and other factors known to increase the risk of spillover, the researchers produced a map of “hot spots” in Asia and Europe where the risk is highest.

While the study doesn’t offer new insights about the origins of the novel coronavirus, which researchers suspect came from bats, it does point out where similar coronaviruses could emerge in the future. Alarmingly, the study finds that in many regions, especially southern China, these spillover risks are high. And it provides yet more evidence that preventing the next coronavirus pandemic will require reducing the root causes of a spillover, such as deforestation - not just responding to outbreaks after they happen.

(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Conspiracy; Health/Medicine; Outdoors
KEYWORDS: covid; covid19; horseshoebat; masks; science; shots
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To: Libloather

A: Wuhan Institute of Virology.


21 posted on 05/31/2021 4:05:31 PM PDT by Uncle Miltie (I'm changing my name to 'Spike Protien'!)
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To: Libloather

Commie plot Don’t listen to them


22 posted on 05/31/2021 4:06:54 PM PDT by Truthoverpower (Arizona !!!! Now the TRUMP TRAIN is getting back on TRACK ! TRUTH! FREEDOM ! LIBERTY! )
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To: CGASMIA68

“Did CV-19 jump from animal to human ?”

no. VOX is perpetuating the lie that covid-19 is a “natural” virus, even though there’s overwhelming evidence that covid-19 was assembled in the Wuhan lab during gain-of-function “experiments” funded by the NIH via a Fauci cutout agency, including critical portions of the covid-19 DNA not found in nature and the fact that no chain of animal to human adaptations can be found for covid-19:

https://thebulletin.org/2021/05/the-origin-of-covid-did-people-or-nature-open-pandoras-box-at-wuhan/


23 posted on 05/31/2021 4:17:08 PM PDT by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: Dogbert41

Why does the next “pandemic” microorganism have to be a coronavirus? It could be any of a number of other pathogens that perhaps affect swine, or horses, or various other domesticated or even wild animals.

Cholera is one possibility, and in fact, as a water-borne disease, it was a serious problem in Colonial America. With a little tweaking, it could be made into a serious threat to humanity once again. Or diptheria. Or typhus or typhoid fever.

There are more ways to spread mischief than people even think about.


24 posted on 05/31/2021 4:17:39 PM PDT by alloysteel ( Cows don't give milk. You have to work for it.)
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To: Libloather

Forget cornaviruses. If you really want to screw things up, go for an airborne lyssavirus that spreads among humans. Closest thing you’ll get to the “rage” from “24 Days Later.”


25 posted on 05/31/2021 4:19:44 PM PDT by IndispensableDestiny
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To: Libloather

What doe u mean jump to Humans.
It didn’t jump. It was created by humans.


26 posted on 05/31/2021 4:35:19 PM PDT by tennmountainman ( Liberals Are Baby Killers)
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To: Libloather

The answer is simple: Wuhan.


27 posted on 05/31/2021 4:35:59 PM PDT by norwaypinesavage (The stone age didn't end because we ran out of stones.)
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To: Libloather

I’m waiting to see when the next coronavirus is released, I mean leaks, I mean spreads throughout the population. Then what of the “vaccinated” peoples?


28 posted on 05/31/2021 4:47:19 PM PDT by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes.)
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To: Libloather

Where are the Chinese biological labs?


29 posted on 05/31/2021 4:51:51 PM PDT by Brilliant
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To: Libloather

Let me guess...

...WUHAN!!!

I’m right, aren’t I?


30 posted on 05/31/2021 4:59:49 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Biology is science. Homemade pronouns are narcissism.)
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To: Bobalu

LOL. Reminds me of 1978 when one of the last vials of Smallpox escaped from a British lab a few decades ago.

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-birmingham-45101091


31 posted on 05/31/2021 4:59:59 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar ((Democrats have declared us to be THE OBSOLETE MAN in the Twilight Zone.))
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To: Libloather

The next pandemic will seal the deal forever, therefore it is already in the works.


32 posted on 05/31/2021 5:00:15 PM PDT by Glad2bnuts ((“If there are no absolutes by which to judge society, then society is absolute.” Francis Schaeffer,)
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To: Brilliant
Where are the Chinese biological labs?

Here ya go!

China building more than 90 bio labs, including 3 just like Wuhan

33 posted on 05/31/2021 5:00:24 PM PDT by null and void (When you put bad people in charge expect bad things to happen, often in a spectacular and sudden way)
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To: Libloather

Wuhan Lab (as long as it’s still running)


34 posted on 05/31/2021 5:00:32 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: xenia

Never trust an article written by someone named “Benji”. Frauds all the way down.


35 posted on 05/31/2021 5:23:53 PM PDT by Jkazak54
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To: Libloather

What other bioweapons labs are there for it to “escape” from?


36 posted on 05/31/2021 6:55:47 PM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: Jkazak54

VOX is a very far-left, anti-American operation. We need to find who is behind them re creation, funding, staff, etc.

I haven’t seen any major exposes about it.


37 posted on 05/31/2021 11:16:00 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: Libloather

If you liked Rona19, you’ll LOVE Rona21, bigger, deadlier, and with 10x the tyranny!


38 posted on 06/01/2021 8:52:30 AM PDT by backwoods-engineer (But what do I know? I'm just a backwoods engineer.)
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