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Where did it come from, what caused it

mariaalice · 2020-03-18 13:39:27

No mad conspirity theories. Any scientific evidence-based information of where it came from, why are we apparently only seeing the worldwide emergence of virus-like this in the past 30 years and more will we have more pandemics emerge for which we will have no vaccines.

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#122 25-03-2020 4:09am
gar32

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https://ec.europa.eu/health/sites/health/files/vaccination/docs/2019-2022_roadmap_en.pdf

I don't know where it came from but I know where this is all going

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#123 25-03-2020 4:09am
Talisman

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boogerballs wrote: »

I get the whole transmission from Animal to Animal to Human but surely a bat infecting a pagolin is very common in the wild and humans eating pagolins are equally as common. Why in this case can the virus be do bad and not the hundreds or thousand times of previous times.

The Australian 60 minutes episode suggested that the pangolin was a species from Sub-Saharan Africa and not a native of Asia. Bats are better known reservoirs of coronaviruses than pangolins which may be why people are focused on there being a bat consumed by a human connection.

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