China still selling bats for food. The entire country of China needs to be quarantined from the civilized world, permanently.
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please excuse my ignorance. But why is eating bats any worse than other wild animals?
what wild animals are worse than others and why?
since i don't eat seafood, the only thing wild ive ever eating is pheasant, deer, turkey, and the 8 spiders that crawl in my mouth while i sleep during the year.
Because the 2003 SARS and MERS both originated as bat coronaviruses that jumped to other animals (civets in China, camels in the Middle East) then to humans.
The theory is that having wild animals caged in filthy conditions in wildlife markets made it easy for the virus to infect other species, including humans, who have no immunity to the new, novel virus.
So there may be other viruses waiting to jump in these filthy, cruel cesspools.
So is it the cages that make it so much worse than eating other wild mammals like deer, squirrel, whale?
Are mammals more dangerous than avians or fish?
Sorry I just know not.
It's that animals that aren't in close proximity in nature are kept side-by-side in cages, making it easier for a virus to easily and repeatedly spread to animals in a way it wouldn't in nature.
That's how the 2003 SARS coronavirus, found in bats, jumped to civets, then to humans. Both are animals Chinese eat, and are kept.
But the reports that these horseshoe bats aren't found in the Wuhan wildlife markets, but are found in Wuhan virology labs, raises more questions