Re:Pangolins found to carry viruses related to Covid-19
by nate_meurer on Thursday March 26, 2020 @01:59PM
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Perfect, thank you. The links in that article don't work for me, but they do in the original essay from the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists:
https://thebulletin.org/2014/03/threatened-pandemics-and-lab...
Those accidents are fucking terrifying. I'm not sure whether to be more scared of that, or of wet markets and antibiotic-soaked factory swine/cattle/poultry farms. Humanity certainly isn't taking any of this seriously enough.
> SARS has not re-emerged naturally, but there have been six escapes from virology labs: one each in Singapore and Taiwan, and four separate escapes at the same laboratory in Beijing.