bungeejumper wrote:redsturgeon wrote:The USA now has the most confirmed cases of Covid 19 in the world...it just overtook China!
And meanwhile the epidemiological finger of blame is now pointing at the pangolin. Widely trafficked, widely eaten in China, widely used in Chinese medicine. And, according to Chinese scientists, it's been found to carry a CV19-like virus strain which it probably caught from bats.
Poor old pangolins. You get bitten, then you get kidnapped, then you get eaten, and then you get blamed for everything.
BJ
From wiki:
However, pangolins were eventually ruled out as the definitive source of (SARS-CoV-2), namely being the bridge that the virus used to jump from bats to humans, after it emerged that the 99% match did not actually refer to the entire genome, but to a specific site known as the receptor-binding domain (RBD).[65] A whole-genome comparison found that the pangolin and human viruses share only 90.3% of their DNA (at least 99.8% is needed for a conclusive match)[65]
John