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Directly via bat guano farming and direct human/bat contact (plus some presence of live bats in wet markets and the workers that need to clean those). Indirect
by lamontcg 5y ago
Directly via bat guano farming and direct human/bat contact (plus some presence of live bats in wet markets and the workers that need to clean those).
Indirectly via animals like minks/civits being farmed. The bats can occasionally infect those animals, when those zoonotic jumps happen there's then a large bioractor of animals in close contact, resulting in a "serial gain of function" experiment to produce a virus which is adapted to those animals and can spread.
Every factory farm is a stochastic virus research laboratory that isn't even BSL-1 trained.