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From the NIH, raising the question of a cosmic origin https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7358766/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC735876

• m463 6y ago
  "Origin of new emergent Coronavirus and Candida fungal diseases - Terrestrial or cosmic?" That's an interesting article title.
• tokai 6y ago
  It's not from the NIH. Its a catalogued by the NIH.
• lioeters 6y ago
  A far-fetched hypothesis, but I enjoyed the science-fiction-like imagination and the facts used to support it. > Both these enigmatic diseases make sense..under a Panspermia in-fall model and the evidence consistent with such a model is critically reviewed. > ..an exceptionally bright fireball event was seen on October 11, 2019..[in] NE China. > If a fragment of a fragile and loosely held carbonaceous meteorite carrying a cargo of trillions of viruses/bacteria and other primary source cells.., may have entered the mesosphere and stratosphere at high speed ~ 30 km/s, its outer, loosely-held envelope carrying a biological cargo may have got dispersed in the mesosphere stratosphere and troposphere. > ..The possible link of sunspots with pandemics..is worthy of brief further discussion. The present cycle has seen the lowest minimum for well over a century.. Sunspot minima are associated with a weakening of the interplanetary magnetic field near the Earth, which in turn allows easy ingress of Galactic Cosmic Rays (GCRs) and electrically charged bacteria and viruses to the Earth.