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We’ve been trying to find the zoonotic origin of Ebola for decades without any success. We don’t have anywhere near a complete catalog of animal diseases, and o

by 542458 5y ago

We’ve been trying to find the zoonotic origin of Ebola for decades without any success. We don’t have anywhere near a complete catalog of animal diseases, and of those only a fraction have been sequenced.

kaesar14 5y ago
We didn’t have the same confluence of other circumstantial evidence we do in this case. There’s no good reason to think Ebola came from a lab.
- TchoBeer 5y ago
  The point isn't "Ebola came from a lab" but rather "the fact that we can't pin down a natural origin doesn't prove it's man-made."
  - lmm 5y ago
    It doesn't prove anything, but it shifts the balance of evidence.