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Sure, but does it happen right next to a world renowned Ebola virus research center?
by joejerryronnie 5y ago
Sure, 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?