[RomanSoldier19]

Why southern China is a hotbed for disease development Aug 11, 2016 7:24 PM EST https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/southern-china-hotbed-disease-development

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in China: the potential role of indacaterol

J Thorac Dis. 2013 Aug; 5(4): 549–558. doi: 10.3978/j.issn.2072-1439.2013.08.04

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is becoming a leading cause of morbidity and mortality in China, with tobacco smoking, biomass fuel use and genetic susceptibility being the major risk factors. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3755687/

[Cold Heart]

Lab bats. Don’t eat the lab bats.

[momincombatboots]

Great... I was thinking it was designed for population control. Those expensive and pesky elderly, like some of us ;)
Thank goodness it was not designed in the lab, it has a natural origin... winky wink.
The humanitarian chinese and socialists everywhere are distraught at the dead, as usual.

[PGR88]

I have seen very interesting reports that describe this as a coronavirus from bats - but one that has been spiked in a laboratory with proteins from SARS that allow it to aggressively bind to “ACE2” receptors in human epithelial cells. Note that Chinese scientists have many patents doing exactly such work - you guessed it - at China’s only Bio-security level 4 lab - in Wuhan.

[aposiopetic]

Bat. The other white meat.

[Mase]

Indonesians eat Durian so they’ll eat anything, bats included.

[jonrick46]

If the Chinese cooks are too stupid to cook their bats well-done, they deserve jail time. Bat sushi is going bat crazy. Lock’em up, I say.

[Artcore]

Some of these people would eat sh*t on a stick if you gave it to them!

[Carriage Hill]

I loves me some Bat Soup w/ Oyster Crackers.

[DannyTN]

I read that as Indiana, not Indonesia.

Dang Hoosiers gonna kill us all!!!

[Jemian]

I live in Indonesia.

I probably could go to a market and purchase a fruit bat for eating if I really wanted to do so. But, they are not sold at all markets here and it is not frequently offered at dinners with guests.

Durian I can get easily. It totally stinks. I’ve been told that if you can get past the smell, it is a wonderful fruit. I can’t get past the smell.

[null and void]

Darwin award candidates all...

Bring Out Your Dead

Post to me or FReep mail to be on/off the Bring Out Your Dead ping list.

The purpose of the “Bring Out Your Dead” ping list (formerly the “Ebola” ping list) is very early warning of emerging pandemics, as such it has a high false positive rate.

So far the false positive rate is 100%.

At some point we may well have a high mortality pandemic, and likely as not the “Bring Out Your Dead” threads will miss the beginning entirely.

*sigh* Such is life, and death...

If a quarantine saves just one child's life, it's worth it.

[VanDeKoik]

TO EAT MORE CHICKEN!!

[DannyTN]

I read that as Indiana, not Indonesia.

Dang Hoosiers gonna kill us all!!!

[Revel]

Maybe they believe that this virus came from a level 4 lab in China.

[Bitman]

Heard it tastes like chicken.

[a fool in paradise]

Bat night at the ballpark?

[D_Idaho]

I remember Andrew Zimmern partaking in a hideous bowl of that. Looked as ugly as it sounds.

[odawg]

“Bat meat is still popular in some parts of Indonesia...”

As Ann Coulter would say: “The State Department would notice that and say -— hey, that is an interesting culture to import into the United States.”

[Bullish]

Yes, I’ll have a family size bucket of batwings please.

[Rastus]

The best part of the bat is the breast.