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09 Jul 2020, 10:53 pm

I thought eradicating mosquitos would be a critical blow to our planet but apparently not.
https://www.nature.com/news/2010/100721 ... 6432a.html

I have heard that the deadlier the disease the less likely it is to spread effectively since the hosts die before they can spread it as much as a less lethal disease. But with so much worldwide travel it seems like more of a coincidence that we haven’t suffered more and more serious pandemics.



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11 Jul 2020, 8:25 am

vermontsavant wrote:
I read Marmot is the cause of the latest bubonic plague,a rodent but big enough to eat.Proper cooking should kill the pestis bacterium,then again a flea from the dead animal could jump to human and infect them also.


That is part of the point of why this thread is titled "Didn't I Hear This Story Before". Now let's see. What did the Chinese blame the origins of the coronavirus on?


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12 Jul 2020, 5:28 am

jimmy m wrote:
vermontsavant wrote:
I read Marmot is the cause of the latest bubonic plague,a rodent but big enough to eat.Proper cooking should kill the pestis bacterium,then again a flea from the dead animal could jump to human and infect them also.


That is part of the point of why this thread is titled "Didn't I Hear This Story Before". Now let's see. What did the Chinese blame the origins of the coronavirus on?
Pangolins,bats and Krait snakes not marmots,marmots live in central Asia as far east as Mongolia and inner Mongolia but not anywhere near Wuhan


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12 Jul 2020, 2:06 pm

vermontsavant wrote:
jimmy m wrote:
vermontsavant wrote:
I read Marmot is the cause of the latest bubonic plague,a rodent but big enough to eat.Proper cooking should kill the pestis bacterium,then again a flea from the dead animal could jump to human and infect them also.


That is part of the point of why this thread is titled "Didn't I Hear This Story Before". Now let's see. What did the Chinese blame the origins of the coronavirus on?
Pangolins,bats and Krait snakes not marmots,marmots live in central Asia as far east as Mongolia and inner Mongolia but not anywhere near Wuhan


Blame the transmission on the bats/reptiles/mammals but deny human-to-human transmission.


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12 Jul 2020, 5:02 pm

human do not eat humans ,,,, ? bats do not eat bats ?


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