Detection of novel coronaviruses in bats in Myanmar

Re:Detection of novel coronaviruses in bats in Myanmar by fspeech on Sunday April 12, 2020 @02:04PM (#22849935)

Here is a study of "Serological Evidence of Bat SARS-Related Coronavirus Infection in Humans, China" done in 2018 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6178078/ The corresponding author Zheng-Li Shi is also the lead reasearcher of Wuhan lab.

I wish people use peer reviewed articles as supporting evidence when making arguments. These subjects (coronavirus origin and transmission) are well researched and disseminated.

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Re:Detection of novel coronaviruses in bats in Myanmar by throwanem on Sunday April 12, 2020 @05:02PM (#22851015)

I wish people who use peer-reviewed articles as supporting evidence when making arguments would do a better job of understanding what those peer-reviewed articles are about.

Or, for that matter, of making an argument in the first place. You're not doing that here. You're just noting that a researcher who does research on transmission of coronaviruses from bats to humans, has published research on transmission of coronaviruses from bats to humans. I don't know what conclusion you expect anyone to draw from that.

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Re:Detection of novel coronaviruses in bats in Myanmar by fspeech on Sunday April 12, 2020 @05:59PM (#22851306)

People can draw their own conclusions. That is what is nice about solid evidence. I will make two notes:

1. Bats can transmit viruses to humans independent of wet markets and research activities and these villagers do travel to cities;

2. This particular research was funded jointly by USA, China and Singapore to monitor possible recurrence of SARS like virus.

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Re:Detection of novel coronaviruses in bats in Myanmar by pengaru on Sunday April 12, 2020 @03:50PM (#22850597)

Is that supposed to be evidence of the covid-19 outbreak originating from the Wuhan lab?

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