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They will close the markets for a while and then they'll reopen them just like the last time, and the time before that, and the time before that. This is like t
by m0zg 7y ago
They will close the markets for a while and then they'll reopen them just like the last time, and the time before that, and the time before that. This is like the 4th time this stuff makes the jump to humans there, and they're getting exceedingly efficient at it. Russian Flu (H1N1 epidemic of '77, see https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/702749 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/702749), SARS, Swine Flu (H1N1 '09), COVID19. Did I miss anything? Some argue Spanish Flu originates there also, since China did not have an epidemic in 1918 unlike the rest of the world.
That's not to say shit like this couldn't happen here in good ol' US of A. Apparently prion disease in deer is one possibility for a cross-over, and that'd be very bad news indeed. As of right now we're not screening deer for it. We should.