Posted on 03/29/2020 8:02:36 AM PDT by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin
Scientists have identified coronavirus-related strains in Malayan pangolins seized during anti-smuggling operations in southern China. The international team of experts says that the presence of the SARS-CoV-2-related coronaviruses means that pangolins, a species of scaly anteater, should be viewed as a possible carrier in the ongoing pandemic.
In addition to selling fresh meat, fish and produce, wet markets typically sell an array of exotic animals and pangolins have already been eyed as a possible host. The seized Malayan pangolins could shed more light on the potential role of the species in spreading coronavirus. “Metagenomic sequencing identified pangolin-associated coronaviruses that belong to two sub-lineages of SARS-CoV-2-related coronaviruses, including one that exhibits strong similarity to SARS-CoV-2 in the receptor-binding domain,” scientists say in the manuscript. “The discovery of multiple lineages of pangolin coronavirus and their similarity to SARS-CoV-2 suggests that pangolins should be considered as possible hosts in the emergence of novel coronaviruses and should be removed from wet markets to prevent zoonotic transmission.”
SNIP
Other organizations have also cited the potential role of pangolins in the coronavirus pandemic. “A species of Horseshoe Bat is currently the principal suspect,” explained the World Bank in a recent blog post. “The bat likely transmitted the virus to an intermediary host, with an early theory pointing at pangolins, the scaly anteater illegally traded for their meat and scales which are then used for their apparent medicinal value.” Human contact with the intermediary host facilitated the final leap of the pathogen, the World Bank noted.
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Pangolins can carry coronavirus-related strains, scientists say...
That’s a lie.
The Pangolini family has lived up the block for decades and no one ever got sick eating there.
Maybe heartburn when the sauce was too heavy.
lol....Nice!
lol....Nice!
lol
Pangolins are roadkill....not food !!!
Well, if the biolabs would quit selling their specimens to the wet markets, that would help, too.
The whole idea of those grotesque markets is disgusting
The things Chinese will eat , yuck
Don’t put too many onions in the sauce...
Oh crap, there was a Pangolin in my backyard this morning. Opps, sorry, my bad. It was a turkey.
Anything with four legs except for the table.
Also the two-legged "chicken of the cave".
lol
Like last time.
I didn’t.
How many?
3!
That’s too much!
-Goodellas...not verbatim though :)
Pretty much everything about the Chinese "culture" disgusts me. Yesterday I saw a picture of a cage full of cats at a "wet market" waiting to be slaughtered for some Chinese weirdo's supper.
More things the Chinese can eat if they haven’t already
Exactly.
This Virus was MOST LIKELY a known bat virus, cultivated in a Pangolin (vs a Civet Cat) IN A LAB, IN CHINA.
The Media need to ask their overlords in the Chinese government about this over and over and over.
The wet market was a fish market.
Probably wouldn’t sell pangolins with coronavirus at the fish market.
Probably wouldn’t sell bat soup with coronavirus at the fish market.
They probably sell fish at the fish market.
If you want coronavirus, you probably have to shop at the biowarfare facility across the street.
Tactical Ant-Eater
Discovery Networks are probably destroying all copies of Andrew Zimmern’s “Bizarre Foods” to cleanwash China.
Multiple Episodes had various bat recipes, grilled scorpions and even highlighted a Donkey Penis restaurant.
Anteaters AGAIN! Hold my beer.
Bats were boinkin’ anteaters? Were they “GAY”?
THAT”S IT!!!!! /s
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