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2020-05-10 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
People In Hong Kong Are Becoming Ill With Rat Hepatitis For First Time Ever. No One Knows How It's Happening.
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Posted by Besoeker 2020-05-10 07:55|| || Front Page|| [11129 views ]  Top

#1 Zoonoses (Live Science link) - A naturally occurring coincidence, or laboratory engineered vector ?

Bacteria and viruses that are deadly to one type of creature can evolve quickly to infect another. While the new coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 (which causes COVID-19) is the latest example,a host of infectious and deadly diseases have hopped from animals to humans and even from humans to animals.

The cross-species infection can originate on farms or markets, where conditions foster mixing of pathogens, giving them opportunities to swap genes and gear up to infect (and sometimes kill) previously foreign hosts. Or the transfer can occur from such seemingly benign activities as letting a performance monkey on some Indonesian street corner climb on your head. Microbes of two varieties can even gather in your gut, do some viral dancing, and evolve to morph you into a contagious host.

Diseases passed from animals to humans are called zoonoses. There are more than three dozen we can catch directly through touch and more than four dozen that result from bites. But disease-carrying parasites are not picky about hosts. Human diseases can decimate animal populations, too, from such well-meaning activities as ecotourism.
Posted by Besoeker 2020-05-10 08:01||   2020-05-10 08:01|| Front Page Top

#2 Time to quarantine HK now?
Long rat trap stocks.
Posted by Clem 2020-05-10 08:07||   2020-05-10 08:07|| Front Page Top

#3 whatever the source, i'm sure it won't be the wet markets, right?
Posted by Bob Grorong1136 2020-05-10 08:17||   2020-05-10 08:17|| Front Page Top

#4 More bio-warfare from the ChiComs?
Posted by Shineger Pelosi3555 2020-05-10 08:33||   2020-05-10 08:33|| Front Page Top

#5 Then there's rat lungworm disease (Angiostrongylus cantonensis). Note the species name.
Posted by Mercutio 2020-05-10 09:44||   2020-05-10 09:44|| Front Page Top

#6 "No one knows how it's happening"

Guaranteed the ChiComs are involved. >:-(
Posted by Barbara 2020-05-10 11:29||   2020-05-10 11:29|| Front Page Top

#7 ^ Lady Barbara Occam for the win.
Posted by Lex 2020-05-10 11:35||   2020-05-10 11:35|| Front Page Top

#8 a doc we know said: "Certain rat hepatitis viruses are coronavirus. There's one being used in the lab in mice as a good model of SARS-COVID-2 infection, as it uses similar receptors and cell entry mechanisms."
Posted by 3dc 2020-05-10 14:05||   2020-05-10 14:05|| Front Page Top

#9 "Doctor, my brain hurts!"
Posted by Clem 2020-05-10 14:07||   2020-05-10 14:07|| Front Page Top

#10 I wish the cowardly SOB's would just go ahead and declare war on us so that we could destroy them and their wet markets properly.
Posted by Besoeker 2020-05-10 14:13||   2020-05-10 14:13|| Front Page Top

#11 ^ this.

Getting tired of this phony war in which they attack us and we pretend to cooperate with them to undo the damage they caused.
Posted by Lex 2020-05-10 14:16||   2020-05-10 14:16|| Front Page Top

#12 Party congress is coming up in the Great Hall of the People. It needs an Ebola desert.
Posted by 3dc 2020-05-10 14:31||   2020-05-10 14:31|| Front Page Top

#13 ^ So, who's running against Xi? Is Bernie invited?
Posted by Matt 2020-05-10 14:40||   2020-05-10 14:40|| Front Page Top

#14 #12 - Or an accurate financial report
Posted by Frank G 2020-05-10 15:20||   2020-05-10 15:20|| Front Page Top

#15 Any Democrats visited Honkers lately?
Posted by Classer 2020-05-10 17:46||   2020-05-10 17:46|| Front Page Top

#16 Meanwhile, trade talks continue between PRC & USA....
Posted by Clem 2020-05-10 19:44||   2020-05-10 19:44|| Front Page Top

#17 ..you can have all the talk you want, but if enough of the public is PO'd they won't buy stuff labeled made in China. I'm sure business will pick up in places like SW Asia and Central America for relabeling.
Posted by Procopius2k 2020-05-10 20:49||   2020-05-10 20:49|| Front Page Top

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