Pangolins are critically endangered anteaters that resemble armadillos. While they are a protected species, they are often smuggled from African and Asian countries into China where they are sold for their meat and scales. In local folklore and traditional medicine, the pangolin's scales are thought to provide a variety of benefits. Since it is illegally poached, purchase of a pangolin in animal markets and under-the-table settings is rumored to be up to $600 per kilogram.
Given our unprecedented mobility, a single "spillover" event, a virus jumping from animal to human, in a remote location can rapidly result in a global calamity like what we are experiencing now. Clearing land for human activities leads to contact with animals and their secretions at an unparalleled intensity. Some animals may be tolerant of organisms to which we have not previously been exposed, and to which we do not have protective immune responses.
So, we have a couple of choices. We can accept that outbreaks like Covid-19 will continue to occur, and likely accelerate in number, as human populations grow, as our incursions into a variety of habitats expand and as our penchant for certain animals continues.
Or just stop eating animals
Please don't say we and us. I've never put my hand in my packet to satisfy a craving for pangolin and never will. We are not responsible for the illegal and immoral actions of a small group of smugglers and users.
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The fault of Ch*nese, not pangolins or us.
I knew it was spread from bat to pangolins to humans.
It's so sad the abuse of the Planet's animals and their continual loss of their habitat....
Why does it keep originating in Asia though? If there is environmental encroachment on all continents, why don't we see this virus jump originating from other continents too? I'm Asian btw and frankly I do feel quite paranoid about these wet markets
The misconception of COVID19 which is a strain of Coronavirus which comes if backtracking to a betacoronavirus.. The Alphacoronavirus & Betacoronavirus genera descend from the bat gene pool.. Origins China & it has nothing to do with pangolins nytimes
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The misconception of COVID19 which is a strain of Coronavirus which comes if backtracking to a betacoronavirus.. The Alphacoronavirus & Betacoronavirus genera descend from the bat gene pool.. Origins China CNN
fault?
Chinese are to blame for the spread not all humans!! Hold China accountable!
But they taste sooo good! 🤔
100% correct and you don't even have to be a professor to understand this. You Mess with Mother Nature and its creatures then it gets Back at You.
Us? You mean China with its CHINESEVIRUS
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