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To: Mariner

Here is a link to a daily report being done on the worlwide spread of the disease:
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https://bnonews.com/index.php/2020/01/the-latest-coronavirus-cases/
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There are the beginning rumors that this was a lab created disease. Not likely, as 6 of the first 7 patients were vendors at the Wuhan seafood market . They sell bats there for food.
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This virus shares 80% of the SARS virus, its closest relative. It has a 96% match with a known virus in fruit bats. Snakes are not the origin.
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This virus is much weaker than SARS but has some unusual traits. It is an RNA rather than a DNA virus like smallpox. That means that it mutates very quickly. Current patients are showing a 4th generation mutation from the original patients amonth ago.
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That makes vaccines very difficult to be effective.
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The new virus also has a very high binding energy to human tissue, about 4 times higher than SARS. That means that infection is far more likely when exposed. In fact, there are about 40% new patients every day, that is extraordinary.
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As usual, vulnerable people are more likely to die. Most people will be able to quickly fight off the virus.


82 posted on 01/25/2020 9:00:08 AM PST by gandalftb
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To: gandalftb

“There are the beginning rumors that this was a lab created disease. Not likely, as 6 of the first 7 patients were vendors at the Wuhan seafood market . They sell bats there for food.”

You can’t say “Not likely”

Black Agnes pointed out ways that a bioweapon could be released into the wild via poor construction. And I will say once again, Fort Detrick was shut down INDEFINITELY in August by the CDC over unsafe conditions for biohazards.

Another poster said she saw something where Commies tried to steal this exact virus from us. I am going to have find that article later. We know that US had the virus man made in the lab in 2015 in Chapel Hill . It was allowed because it started before a moratorium on such research.

What you can say is that it might or might not be a bioweapon.

What I can say is that the response by China is indicative they know it is a bioweapon.

And I can say their bioweapon lab might or might not be the point of origin.


87 posted on 01/25/2020 9:17:42 AM PST by RummyChick
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To: gandalftb

It has a 96% match with a known virus in fruit bats


whole fruit bat soup is a big Chinese favorite ....


126 posted on 01/25/2020 10:39:33 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: gandalftb

Looks like Patient 0 had no tie to the animal market.

https://www.scmp.com/news/china/soci...avirus-chinese

(South China Morning Post)


132 posted on 01/25/2020 10:46:06 AM PST by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change with out notice.)
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To: gandalftb

Thank you for the link!


147 posted on 01/25/2020 11:38:04 AM PST by SueRae (An administration like no other.)
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To: gandalftb

here you go..but patient O had never been to the market

https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/3047646/no-link-seafood-market-first-case-china-coronavirus-chinese

So again, you can’t say not likely.

You can say may or may not be originated from the Biolab.

And even further...US needs to find out if China stole that virus from the US since we did have it back in 2015.


169 posted on 01/25/2020 1:20:53 PM PST by RummyChick
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