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How It All Started ? Wuhan Virus

serfserf Member Posts: 9,217 ✭✭✭✭
edited March 2020 in General Discussion

 Back to The Fish Market with a shrimp peddler while using the toilet?
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A shrimp peddler at the Chinese market where the coronavirus pandemic likely began has been identified as one of the first victims of the disease — and possibly “patient zero.”

Looking back, Ms. Wei thinks she might have been infected via the toilet she shared with the wild meat sellers and others on the market’s west side. She said the vendors next to her on both sides got sick, and the man kitty corner from her almost died. One of her daughters, a niece and the niece’s husband caught the virus, too.

While WHO and Chinese officials have repeatedly trumpeted the swift sharing of the genome data as evidence of transparency in Beijing’s response, some epidemiologists believe it should have happened at least a week earlier.

They, and many local doctors, also fault the government’s repeated denials of human-to-human transmission in the first half of January.

“We knew then that the government was lying,” said one local doctor. “But we don’t know why they needed to lie. Maybe they thought it could be controlled.”

Only after a WHO official told a press conference on Jan. 14 that there could be “limited human-to-human transmission, potentially among families,” did the Wuhan branch of the National Health Commission adjust its language to echo that position.

 Ps.  Selling test wild animals from the bio-lab from the wild meat section within the Fish market could have done this, after emitting excrement in the restrooms after a vendor took one home to eat( see in the comments ,see below.

   Also there is no such thing as "bio-engineering" a pathogenic virus. You would need many human testing subjects to test "successful" "bio-engineered" pathogens. Furthermore, Coronaviruses are extremely difficult to propagate in tissue culture cells; CoviD 19








Comments

  • hobo9650hobo9650 Member Posts: 2,759 ✭✭✭
    BS.  This the third or fourth wives tale I've read on how it started.  One ws thjat it came from a cow.  One from the dead test animals from a lab sold to meat market.

    I doubt we will ever know the truth.  China ain't talking.
  • serfserf Member Posts: 9,217 ✭✭✭✭
      I thought live ones sell better than dead ones,don't you think? Heck those Chinese may even drink the blood for a tonic potion. I hate to say it but Asian's eat a lot different parts of animals I would not touch.
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          The stress of captivity in these chaotic markets weakens the animals' immune systems and creates an environment where viruses from different species can mingle, swap bits of their genetic code and spread from one species to another, according to biologist Kevin Olival, vice president for research at the EcoHealth Alliance. When that happens, occasionally a new strain of an animal virus gets a foothold in humans and an outbreak like this current coronavirus erupts.

    https://www.goldthread2.com/food/all-ways-chinese-people-eat-blood/article/3022195


  • yoshmysteryoshmyster Member Posts: 22,059 ✭✭✭✭

    You'd think more exotic virus/bugs should show up in Africa. Being that they serve up bushmeat. Maybe bushmeat don't travel well or far out enough to make the news? So what's in the Chinese dirt that pops up like every 20 years?

    As for the Chinese selling lab animals "waste not want not" comes to mind. Read the labels before buying ham from China. I suppose pigs used in insulin ain't bad? Double the profit margin. Maybe it's a muslim genocide against the pork munchers.

  • spasmcreeksrunspasmcreeksrun Member Posts: 1,755 ✭✭✭
    CV is difficult to propagate in tissue culture cells ?????  seems to do well in tissue around the world >>>>>>>>>>
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