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© Copyright 2020 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission.Scientists focus on bats for clues to prevent next pandemic
By CHRISTINA LARSON, ANIRUDDHA GHOSAL and MARCELO SILVA DE SOUSA RIO DE JANEIRO©2024 GPlusMedia Inc.
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Kumagaijin
I think we might be better off leaving the bats alone instead of eating them and doing 'gain of function' research.
EvilBuddha
Batman should be able to help.
Kaerimashita
If we leave them alone then less chance of contagion.
These people should be looking at disease research labs as a vector rather than poor wild animals.
virusrex
That would have no advantages, SARS came from a natural source, MERS came from a natural source, COVID-19 is hugely more likely to have come from a natural source (since the conspiracy theories of artificial origin have been debunked).
What do you think is more likely to produce a virus dangerous to humans, millions of extra inter-species interactions a day thanks to climate change and human encroachment of the bats environment; or one lab doing maybe a dozen of them a week (it is is very productive)?
There are disease labs everywhere in the world, and every virology lab is doing gain-of-function work, how come new zoonotic viruses only come from the same places where they came since prehistory? coincidence?
Sven Asai
There you have it (again). They import all thinkable and still not known bacteria, viruses and diseases directly out of far nature into their labs in the crowded cities with full intentions, covered as science. Somebody immediately stop all those bio-terrorists. Don’t you really still have enough with that corona pandemic?
Desert Tortoise
Ever see fruit bats? Pretty common in Asia and northern Australia. Two meter wingspans, quite impressive when they fill the windscreen of the helicopter you're flying! They hang out in the trees in the city of Cairns Australia. I discovered that one day when I happened to look up while jogging. Yikes! Not just one or two trees either. I still get the willies thinking about it.
Desert Tortoise
Are you serious or just being sarcastic? The bats are already living in the city. They are in every city in the world.
krustytheclown
Bats aren't bugs!!
rdemers
Bats as scapegoats, the new science...