Paper from 2007 warned that the presence of numerous SARS-like viruses in bats, coupled with a “culture of eating exotic animals in southern China”, was a “time bomb”. https://cmr.asm.org/content/20/4/660
I've hear bat soup is a traditional delicacy in parts of China. They boil a whole bat in a kettle and eat pretty much all of it. I can understand that very poor people may not have much choice as to where to get their proteins. But this sort of thing goes too far. You can't have millions of people die because of some people's bat soup. Something constructive has to be done about this.
If we want to put ourselves into the shoes of regulators, meaning creating a future it helps to look into history. My question @markkujantunen is, how "constructive" are we treating and handling for instance our agricultural livestock keeping of chicken?
"The cages stacked one over another. Animals at the bottom are often soaked with all kinds of liquid. Animal excrement , pus, blood or whatever liquid they are receiving from the animals above. That's exactly how a virus can jump from one animal to another." (2:22)
That does not sound so different from what we are doing
Here some details on the differences and regulatory history in China
It's stands to reason to assume that if the range of species is greater, then the chances of virii transmitting between species is greater. If this is the case, the Chinese themselves would benefit from tighter regulation of this trade. According to the video, bats in particular are a source of coronaviruses, against which vaccines do not exist. Also, the hygienic conditions seemed pretty bad.
According to the video, it's rich people who consume the exotic wildlife. All the more reason to crack down on the industry. It's a tiny sector of the economy today.
I don't like agricultural livestock handling in the West either, but it hasn't been causing deadly pandemics on the regular.
How tiny can become big, it's unbelievable! Well here in the West we're talking about antibiotics not working anymore as they should bc of resistances.
#ThriveOnHiveengagement3
Isn't it wonderful that the gem was finally discovered and is lived in practice, @bluemist? ;)
13 years ticking time bomb
Great discovery, don't understand why China is not doing anything about the wild animal markets. It's not the first SARS virus.
I fully agree.
I've hear bat soup is a traditional delicacy in parts of China. They boil a whole bat in a kettle and eat pretty much all of it. I can understand that very poor people may not have much choice as to where to get their proteins. But this sort of thing goes too far. You can't have millions of people die because of some people's bat soup. Something constructive has to be done about this.
If we want to put ourselves into the shoes of regulators, meaning creating a future it helps to look into history. My question @markkujantunen is, how "constructive" are we treating and handling for instance our agricultural livestock keeping of chicken?
That does not sound so different from what we are doing
Here some details on the differences and regulatory history in China
It's stands to reason to assume that if the range of species is greater, then the chances of virii transmitting between species is greater. If this is the case, the Chinese themselves would benefit from tighter regulation of this trade. According to the video, bats in particular are a source of coronaviruses, against which vaccines do not exist. Also, the hygienic conditions seemed pretty bad.
According to the video, it's rich people who consume the exotic wildlife. All the more reason to crack down on the industry. It's a tiny sector of the economy today.
I don't like agricultural livestock handling in the West either, but it hasn't been causing deadly pandemics on the regular.
How tiny can become big, it's unbelievable! Well here in the West we're talking about antibiotics not working anymore as they should bc of resistances.
#ThriveOnHive engagement3