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Re:Pangolins found to carry viruses related to Covid-19 by soperj on Thursday March 26, 2020 @11:58AM (#22694875)
The 2009 swine flu epidemic originated in the states. Are you asking to shut down pig farms in the US as well?
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Re:Pangolins found to carry viruses related to Covid-19 by JumpCrisscross on Thursday March 26, 2020 @12:17PM (#22695099)
> The 2009 swine flu epidemic originated in the states

As another comment [1] mentioned, the 2009 swine flu originated in Mexico [2].

The 1918 Spanish flu, on the other hand, originated in Kansas [3].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22694893

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_flu_pandemic#Mexico

[3] https://www.kshs.org/kansapedia/flu-epidemic-of-1918/17805

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Re:Pangolins found to carry viruses related to Covid-19 by geddy on Thursday March 26, 2020 @01:15PM (#22695724)
Depends. Do you want pandemics to keep happening?

If you don't, then yes, animal farms in general need to be shut down. But they won't, because the world is addicted to eating meat, and pandemics will keep happening.

Speaking of which, I need to get back to work but I'll see ya in an identical comment section in four years where people will blame, oh I don't know, the eating of chinchillas or something.

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Re:Pangolins found to carry viruses related to Covid-19 by jlawson on Thursday March 26, 2020 @11:59AM (#22694893)
No, it originated in Veracruz, Mexico.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_flu_pandemic

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Re:Pangolins found to carry viruses related to Covid-19 by Ritsuko_akagi on Thursday March 26, 2020 @12:00PM (#22694905)
yes
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