Most (perhaps all) of the comments for this post are nonsense. As reported for decades, rural China has a problem with small-time farmers living in proximity w

Most (perhaps all) of the comments for this post are nonsense. As reported for decades, rural China has a problem with small-time farmers living in proximity with livestock, especially pigs. Thus you get the annual "swine flu" as genetically we're very similar, so can pass viruses back and forth and amplify them. So if you want to understand this flu season, just google for past years, especially SARS. This corona virus appears to be an even more communicable analog to SARS, which nations struggled to contain last time.