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Both the Ebola and Marburg viruses both seem to live in bats in Africa and periodically transfer to humans - given it's happening in one place means it's not su
by Taniwha 5y ago
Both the Ebola and Marburg viruses both seem to live in bats in Africa and periodically transfer to humans - given it's happening in one place means it's not surprising it happens elsewhere
- joejerryronnie 5y agoSure, but does it happen right next to a world renowned Ebola virus research center?
- InitialLastName 5y agoI would be willing to bet that if Ebola were a frequent issue in a country that had the ability to construct a world-class virus research center, there would be a research center very close to the locations where Ebola had a natural reservoir. No matter how hard you yell it, correlation is not causation (and even when there is causation, the direction of the causation isn't always obvious).
- kian 5y agoWuhan Virology Institute is not located near a natural reservoir.
- mikem170 5y agoThere's genetic evidence that the first cases were not from Wuhan [0]: > Of 23 samples that came from Wuhan, only three were type A, the rest were type B, a version two mutations from A. But in other parts of China, Forster says, initially A was the predominant strain. For instance, of nine genome samples in Guangdong, some 600 miles south of Wuhan, five were A types. [0] https://www.usnews.com/news/best-countries/articles/2020-05-13/scientist-suggests-coronavirus-originated-outside-of-wuhan https://www.usnews.com/news/best-countries/articles/2020-05-...
- native_samples 5y agoEbola has in the past escaped from labs. https://www.cdc.gov/vhf/marburg/index.html https://www.cdc.gov/vhf/marburg/index.html (Marburg virus is a variant of Ebola)
- Taniwha 5y agoYou mean like this one? https://www.niaid.nih.gov/diseases-conditions/researching-ebola-africa https://www.niaid.nih.gov/diseases-conditions/researching-eb... Where else would you research ebola?