Posted on 02/11/2020 10:58:45 AM PST by Norski
Pangolins carry a 99% identical coronavirus, report Chinese scientists
GUANGZHOU, China––Will the Wuhan coronavirus, newly linked to pangolins, save one of the world’s most endangered animals?
Headlines over the weekend of February 8-9, 2020 amplified global panic that the number of confirmed Wuhan coronavirus deaths had soared beyond the 2003 toll from severe acute respiratory syndrome [SARS], and within another day topped 1,000.
But word came almost simultaneously from the South China Agricultural University in Guangzhou, capital city of Guangdong province, that researchers Shen Yongyi and Xiao Lihua may have positively identified the source of the mysterious coronavirus, known to have been circulating since November 2019 and of increasing concern to health authorities worldwide since mid-January 2020.
(Beth Clifton collage) “Genetic sequences of viruses”
Revealing their findings at a February 7, 2020 media conference, Shen Yongyi and Xiao Lihua discovered “genetic sequences of viruses isolated from the scaly animals [pangolins] are 99% similar to that of the circulating virus,” reported David Cyranoski for the journal Nature.
“The work is yet to be formally published,” warned Cyranoski, but that development is imminently expected.
“The identity of the animal source of the coronavirus, named nCoV-2019,” Cyranoski explained, has been one of the key questions that researchers have been racing to answer. Coronaviruses are known to circulate in mammals and birds, and scientists have already suggested that nCoV-2019,” like SARS, “originally came from bats, a proposal based on the similarity of its genetic sequence to those of other known coronaviruses. . . "
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Norski
Pangolins are anteater like animals that resemble living pine cones in motion.
so, Pangolin Lo-Mein with a Bat Egg Roll was a poor menu choice...
All species live in either Asia or Africa. Haven’t heard of any cases in Africa.
Maybe they don’t EAT THEM in Africa!..................
Revenge of the Pangolins. And the Bats.
Cute little buggers...................
“have not seen this anywhere else. “
tucker had this on last night ...not as much depth though ...
Tucker also was apparently the first newscaster with the story regarding the WAY FORWARD act, I had heard. This work is as yet unpublished.
” . . .But the virus was probably transmitted to humans by another animal,” Cyranoski added. “Shen Yongyi and Xiao Lihua have identified the pangolin as the potential source of nCoV-2019 on the basis of a genetic comparison of coronaviruses taken from the animals and from humans infected in the outbreak and other findings.. .”
(from the article)
” . . .As Cyranoski mentioned, “Pangolins are protected animals, but illegal trafficking is widespread,” despite penalties of 10 years or more in prison for convicted offenders.
Pangolins are eaten as a delicacy, while pangolin scales are used in traditional remedies for skin diseases, menstrual disorders, and arthritis.
The apparent link between pangolin consumption and the Wuhan coronavirus was reported in Nature only hours before Program for Monitoring Emerging Diseases [ProMED] network rapporteur Kunihiko Iizuka and the Johns Hopkins Center for Systems Science and Engineering on February 11, 2020 updated the coronavirus toll on humans to 42,310 medically confirmed cases worldwide, including 908 deaths, which became 1,016 deaths by the end of the day.
As of February 10, 2020, 96% of the identified cases had come in Hubei province, China, where 871 deaths had occurred. . .”
Oh, man. First they take my bat soup away and now it’s no more Pangolin burgers. This whole thing is a vegan plot.
Perhaps one might interest you in a bowl of deep-fried locusts?
They are cute, and appear to be fairly docile.
A true Armored-Dillo.
Yup, there goes all my plans for a clandestine pangolin farm. Unrealized millions up in smoke.
Would you use turtle wax or steel wool to shine that thing up?
More fakenews from China, the WHO & media.
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