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>All the recent outbreaks of viruses like this have originated from East Asia. That's not true. Swine flu came from Mexico and MERS, as the name implies, star
by treis 7y ago
>All the recent outbreaks of viruses like this have originated from East Asia.
That's not true. Swine flu came from Mexico and MERS, as the name implies, started in the Middle East
- qplex 7y agoI do mean SARS which first surfaced in the 2000s in China. Swine flu has been around for much longer, at least for 100 years.
- Talanes 7y agoHaving one example and phrasing it to sound like multiple is misleading, imo.
- qplex 7y agoSorry about that. It wasn't the point, as SARS is caused by many different strains of the same type of virus. The first outbreak of SARS-CoV was identified in Foshan, Guangdong, China, in November 2002. Thats almost 20 years ago. Also Swine Infulenza does not originate from Mexico.
- treis 7y agoThe flu colloquially known as swine flu from 2009 did start in Mexico.