This is the punishment for the abject cruelty the Chinese show to animals. I really believe that. It is a dreadful thing that other people are catching the disease but I have a distinct lack of any empathy for people who hack living animals apart or boil them alive, who are killing species after species of endangered animals for their voodoo “folk medicines” or their home brewed version of Viagra, and who will eat any swill, prepared on even the filthy floor. Too bad it can’t be contained just in China. I certainly hope that innocent pets will not be killed due to some idiot uninformed officials going full panic mode.
This may be why they give their children pet crickets so they don’t get too attached to the four legged pets.