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Hong Kong study confirms world’s first known hamster-to-human coronavirus transmissions
South China Morning Post ^ | 29 Jan, 2022 | Denise Tsang

Posted on 02/06/2022 7:06:36 PM PST by 11th_VA

A Hong Kong study has confirmed the world’s first known instances of hamster-to-human transmission of the coronavirus, tying them to a cluster of Delta cases linked to local pet shops that sparked a controversial cull of thousands of the rodents. The study, which has not been peer-reviewed, and was run as a preprint by the medical journal The Lancet on Saturday, determined that there were two separate hamster-to-human transmissions involving the Delta variant, and that the pets had contracted Covid-19 before being imported into the city...

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


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It’s not a good time to be a hamster … This just in. Hong Kong just reported 600+ new Delta Covid cases, after a previous day’s high of 300+. The party is over …
1 posted on 02/06/2022 7:06:36 PM PST by 11th_VA
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2 posted on 02/06/2022 7:12:20 PM PST by gubamyster
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3 posted on 02/06/2022 7:14:02 PM PST by dsrtsage ( Complexity is just simple lacking imagination)
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Delta? Are they pimpin’ that again?


4 posted on 02/06/2022 7:16:34 PM PST by Libloather (Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)
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Lemmiwinks!


5 posted on 02/06/2022 7:25:13 PM PST by Tench_Coxe
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Don’t believe any study that tries to put the Chicoms in the clear.


6 posted on 02/06/2022 7:25:30 PM PST by libh8er
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What they are trying to show is animal to human transmission of covid is possible


7 posted on 02/06/2022 7:26:49 PM PST by libh8er
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HONG KONG, Feb. 6 (Xinhua) -- Hong Kong reported 342 new cases of COVID-19 over the past 24 hours, according to data from the Center for Health Protection on Sunday.

All the newly reported cases were local infections, of which 20 related to the Delta strain. There were another 300 cases preliminarily tested positive. Director of Health of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) government Ronald Lam told a press briefing on Sunday that over the past two weeks, 1,921 confirmed cases of COVID-19 have been recorded.

Lam said there were multiple chains of transmission in Hong Kong and he expected the number of new infections to rise.

8 posted on 02/06/2022 7:26:54 PM PST by 11th_VA (I can still remember an America where dissent was the highest form of patriotism.)
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Armageddon! /Old urban legend>

In before the Richard Gere jokes.


9 posted on 02/06/2022 7:30:46 PM PST by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change with out notice.)
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Hammy The Hamster


10 posted on 02/06/2022 7:39:03 PM PST by TornadoAlley3 ( I'm Proud To Be An Okie From Muskogee)
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Add hamsters to the list of aninals this bioengineered bug can infect. So far minks,white tail deer,dogs,cats,tigers,bears, and ferrets just to name the ones in the recent news. Name another virus that has the same proven ability to infect such a wide range of zoological hosts. It’s the ACE2 receptor targeting mechanism every warm blooded air breathing animal has ACE2 receptors so in theory every one of them can catch and harbor this bug.


11 posted on 02/06/2022 7:45:39 PM PST by JD_UTDallas ("Veni Vidi Vici" )
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They just make crap up here every day. It’s a non-stop onslaught of local “experts” spewing garbage.

Can’t wait to get out of here. Hong Kong is a true idiocracy with Peking puppets.


12 posted on 02/06/2022 7:46:17 PM PST by HYPOCRACY (This is the dystopian future we've been waiting for!)
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ARMAGEDDON! Radio announcer (Robert D. Raiford) struggles with funny story! // DeeJayOne

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTrOb8zyrZk

NSFW


13 posted on 02/06/2022 7:47:24 PM PST by Clay Moore (Make Jan. 6 Ashli Babbitt Remembrance Day )
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Did they ever confirm the first monkey to human AIDS transmission?


14 posted on 02/06/2022 7:49:59 PM PST by lightman (I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
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I keep reading stories about how Sars-Covid19 hasn’t even been isolated as a virus and yet these transmission stories regularly come out .... what gives??


15 posted on 02/06/2022 7:56:21 PM PST by Ken522
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Maybe the bloggers you rely on are lying to you?

https://hub.jhu.edu/2020/03/30/covid-19-gene-sequencing/


16 posted on 02/06/2022 8:00:12 PM PST by jjotto ( Blessed are You LORD, who crushes enemies and subdues the wicked.)
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Hamster or furry?
We’re going to need smaller masks.


17 posted on 02/06/2022 11:54:39 PM PST by If You Want It Fixed - Fix It ( )
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18 posted on 02/07/2022 2:04:50 AM PST by Mr Radical (In times of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.)
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A ChiCom study, not yet peer reviewed, in the Lancet....

SNORT.


19 posted on 02/07/2022 2:07:20 AM PST by mewzilla (God bless Canada's Freedom Truckers!)
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Hamsters as a Model of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus-2

Note the fine print.

20 posted on 02/07/2022 2:10:28 AM PST by mewzilla (God bless Canada's Freedom Truckers!)
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