Coronavirus
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Highly pathogenic avian influenza A(H5N1) virus infection discovered in farmed minks in Spain
https://www.eurosurveillance.org…
Last year this article made the case SARS-CoV-2 could have also come from mink farms:
https://reporterre.net/Mounting-…
Many scientists think we may be entering the age of pandemics due to human population growth, destruction of the natural world and industrial farming. Minks and other small mammals are ideal incubators since they are easily infected, they virus spreads within the environment of the farm and then becomes better adapted to mammals and eventually humans.
People with their "viruses only come from labs", "I'll never take a vaccine" and "viruses don't exist" theories may be in for a tough time if that's true.
- "The question isn't if this will turn into a human pandemic, it's how long do we have until it does"yuekit
- https://twitter.com/…yuekit
- Apparently it's just a few mutations away from becoming transmissible among humansyuekit
- 'human population growth, destruction of the natural world and industrial farming' <— this is the ultimate 'fuck around and find out'.Continuity
- Yeah, I think we'll get a Big One in '24. Maybe sooner.zardoz
- Election year innitzardoz
- There are as many potential threats from microbes as there are stars in the sky. Some are suspected of mass extinctions, such as “The Great Dying” 252M yrs ago.ptrdo
- Interesting point, I didn't know that about the Triassic extinction or however it's called. Also if you watch the Steven Soderbergh film Contagion, theyyuekit
- predicted basically everything that would happen with the SARS-2 pandemic, even the guy selling you a fake cure.yuekit