The 2007 team
of researchers
from Hong Kong
were named
Cheng, Lau,
Woo and Yuen.
In 2007 they said:
“The presence of a
large reservoir of
Sars-CoV-like viruses
in horseshoe bats,
together with the
culture of eating
exotic mammals
in southern China,
is a time bomb.”
China hasn't
been honest
about the source
of COVID-19, or the
actual death toll
in China.
Some experts point to
Chinese "wet markets"
that sell "exotic" animals
for food.
Andrew Cunningham,
of the Zoological Society
of London, wants all
“wet markets” shut down,
across Africa and Asia.
The biggest opportunity
for pathogens to pass
from animals to people
came with the invention
animal husbandry, about
10,000 years ago.
Renaissance Europeans
were like petri dishes
for nasty infections
thanks to thousands
of years of wading
through animal waste,
and also breathing in
what they breathed out,
and vice versa.
"Wet” markets could
have been the source
of the SARs-2 virus
that causes COVID-19.
Because wet markets
have been known to be
a source of dangerous
viruses.
Viruses are predators.
Humans are their prey.
They constantly search
for another way
to invade our bodies.