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Re:It’s Time to Build by treis on Saturday April 18, 2020 @09:32PM (#22912708)
>All the recent outbreaks of viruses like this have originated from East Asia.

That's not true. Swine flu came from Mexico and MERS, as the name implies, started in the Middle East

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Re:It’s Time to Build by qplex on Saturday April 18, 2020 @09:51PM (#22912794)
I do mean SARS which first surfaced in the 2000s in China.

Swine flu has been around for much longer, at least for 100 years.

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Re:It’s Time to Build by Talanes on Sunday April 19, 2020 @03:13AM (#22914150)
Having one example and phrasing it to sound like multiple is misleading, imo.
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Re:It’s Time to Build by qplex on Sunday April 19, 2020 @06:51AM (#22914903)
Sorry about that. It wasn't the point, as SARS is caused by many different strains of the same type of virus.

The first outbreak of SARS-CoV was identified in Foshan, Guangdong, China, in November 2002.

Thats almost 20 years ago.

Also Swine Infulenza does not originate from Mexico.

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Re:It’s Time to Build by treis on Sunday April 19, 2020 @09:03AM (#22915624)
The flu colloquially known as swine flu from 2009 did start in Mexico.
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