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Re:Scientist finds early virus sequences that had been myste... by sudosysgen on Thursday June 24, 2021 @12:56PM (#27620405)
Because it wasn't. It evolved to become this way. But on the path to this evolution it was not anything of note and no one would notice it.
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Re:Scientist finds early virus sequences that had been myste... by T-A on Friday June 25, 2021 @02:43AM (#27627818)
Nobody noticed the precursors to SARS and MERS either, until those emerged in humans. But once they did, the precursors were quickly found in civets and camels, respectively.

A reminder: https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/03/26/1021263/bat-covi...

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Re:Scientist finds early virus sequences that had been myste... by sudosysgen on Friday June 25, 2021 @03:11AM (#27627956)
It took half a decade for SARS. It wasn't immediate by any stretch of the imagination.
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Re:Scientist finds early virus sequences that had been myste... by T-A on Friday June 25, 2021 @01:19PM (#27633676)
> It took half a decade for SARS. It wasn't immediate by any stretch of the imagination.

It took less than a year from outbreak to publication:

https://science.sciencemag.org/content/302/5643/276

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