Liked on YouTube: Coronavirus Origins | How to Stop Pandemics

Liked on YouTube: Coronavirus Origins | How to Stop Pandemics

The current Covid-19 virus is just the latest in a long line of examples that demonstrate a worrying trend. Over the last century, at least ten infectious diseases have passed from animals to humans, concealing an unpalatable truth: this can happen because we let it. It’s thought that Covid-19 may have passed from bats to humans through pangolins, the most trafficked mammal in the world. Our new video explores how the illegal wildlife trade and captive breeding of wild animals can lead to the transmission of new, potentially deadly diseases. #terramatters #coronavirus #stopwildlifecrime 📑(16.03.2020) NEWS UPDATE to 03:56 min -04:04min: Researchers from the South China Agricultural University tested genome sequences of viruses found in pangolins with a 99% identical result to those tested on humans infected with the virus, but it was now revealed that the results of that test were from a portion of the genome sequence, not the full sequence, rendering it inconclusive. The research is ongoing: Many experts and professors have requested that the data from the trial be made public so more scientists can properly compare the genome sequences. Quoted Sources: (1) Centers for Disease Control and Prevention https://www.cdc.gov/ (2) South China Agricultural University https://english.scau.edu.cn/ (3) Wildlife Conservation Society https://www.wcs.org/ (4) TRAFFIC Briefing Sept. 2016 - An Overview of Pangolin Trade in China https://www.traffic.org/ (5) WildAid - Pangolins on the brink https://wildaid.org/ (6) Chinese Academy of Engineering http://en.cae.cn/en/

March 14, 2020 at 09:40AM



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