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You don't get adapted to human via spreading through hACE2 expressing mice. You get adapted to humans via serial passage through humans. > none of hundreds of
by lamontcg 5y ago
You don't get adapted to human via spreading through hACE2 expressing mice.
You get adapted to humans via serial passage through humans.
> none of hundreds of millions of wild animals that could have brought this about have been found.
Based on the headline article it sounds to me like China has found them but they're not releasing that information publicly.
It is probably an important factory farmed animal in China and they do not want to shut down the trade or have international pressure force them to shut down the trade. It may be as politically attractive to them as the idea that Obama should have shut down pig farming and ban bacon and pork chops if the 2009 H1N1 pandemic had been 10 or 100 times worse.
- philliphaydon 5y agoProb shouldn’t be eating meat from China anyway. Due to the lack of regulations the animals are not given vaccines and such to prevent known illnesses in livestock. Tho there was an article a few years ago which said this is changing, some farms are now taking the hit on cost to vaccine their livestock as people are avoiding the meat in favour of imported meat for safety.
- lamontcg 5y agoYou're not going to get it from eating the meat. Its the farmhands who have direct contact with the live animals that are the issue. Or all the workers and buyers in the wet markets handling live animals (and cleaning up their shit). Vaccinating the animals would be a start towards being able to maintain the farming of animals while reducing the risks of future spillovers. And they may want to buy as much time as they can in order to put those kinds of safeguards in place before everyone starts screaming at them to shut it all down now, which is really my point.