Just a Coincidence

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• Onastone Posts: 4,158 ✭✭✭✭✭

  March 9, 2020 4:34AM

  

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• ricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭

  March 9, 2020 4:53AM

  Looks more like it originated with Pangolins....Cheers, RickO
  "According to Chinese state media, researchers at South China Agricultural University have analyzed over 1,000 metagenome samples of wild animals to find pangolins, a type of anteater, are the most likely intermediate host of the novel coronavirus.

  “They found that the sequence of the coronavirus strain assembled from metagenomes was 99 percent identical to that of infected people in the recent coronavirus outbreak,” reported state media.

  Shen Yongyi, a professor with the university and member of the research team, told the Xinhua news service that although previous research found the novel coronavirus originated in bats, the animals hibernate in winter, making it unlikely that they caused the current outbreak."

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• Whippersnapper Posts: 113 ✭✭

  March 9, 2020 5:01AM

  I don't know, its hard to trust what any government controlled news agency says anymore! 😊

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• Onastone Posts: 4,158 ✭✭✭✭✭

  March 9, 2020 3:16PM

  @ricko said:
  Looks more like it originated with Pangolins....

  Thanks Ricko! I had to look for a Pangolin now....here's a photo of a Pangolin,
  image by: Ansar Khan

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• TurtleCat Posts: 4,628 ✭✭✭✭✭

  March 9, 2020 3:18PM

  Maybe it’ll stop the illegal exploitation of these animals. Although I seriously doubt it as it’s driven other species to extinction or near extinction for “traditional medicine”.

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• ms70 Posts: 13,956 ✭✭✭✭✭

  March 9, 2020 3:18PM

  The Chinese have been eating those things for hundreds, if not thousands of years and NOW the virus emerges?

  I'm not buying it.

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• ParlousJoe Posts: 451 ✭✭✭

  March 9, 2020 3:44PM

  That is one odd looking animal!!

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• johnny9434 Posts: 29,284 ✭✭✭✭✭

  March 9, 2020 4:21PM

  @ms70 said:
  The Chinese have been eating those things for hundreds, if not thousands of years and NOW the virus emerges?

  I'm not buying it.

  +1

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• Jimnight Posts: 10,846 ✭✭✭✭✭

  March 9, 2020 4:26PM

  Good looking animal.

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• Onastone Posts: 4,158 ✭✭✭✭✭

  March 9, 2020 4:32PM

  I'm beginning to think there's a coin for everything.

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• Namvet69 Posts: 9,270 ✭✭✭✭✭

  March 9, 2020 4:36PM

  It's all about how the pangolin bushmeat is handled by the time it gets to market. Nasty! Peace Roy

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• WAYNEAS Posts: 7,010 ✭✭✭✭✭

  March 9, 2020 5:17PM

  @Onastone said:

  @ricko said:
  Looks more like it originated with Pangolins....

  Thanks Ricko! I had to look for a Pangolin now....here's a photo of a Pangolin,
  image by: Ansar Khan

  I'd grade it as a business strike ms68 lol

  Kennedys are my quest...

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• koynekwest Posts: 10,048 ✭✭✭✭✭

  March 9, 2020 5:23PM

  @TurtleCat said:
  Maybe it’ll stop the illegal exploitation of these animals. Although I seriously doubt it as it’s driven other species to extinction or near extinction for “traditional medicine”.

  Unfortunately that seems to be true. I saw what's consumed over there when I was in the Far East.

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