Evidence for a mouse origin of the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant

Re:Evidence for a mouse origin of the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron var... by petre on Monday January 03, 2022 @01:16AM (#29777898)

The bat caves are mostly in the region of Yunnan, a mountainous region famous for the tea with the same name. It directly borders Myanmar and Laos.

Noted, about "nearby", edited.

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Re:Evidence for a mouse origin of the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron var... by wk_end on Monday January 03, 2022 @01:37AM (#29778021)

Not really "nearby" - they're something like 1500km away. Unless you'd refer to Warsaw as a nearby city of Paris, or Atlanta as nearby to New York, or Vancouver, BC as nearby to San Jose.

ETA: parent comment (to their credit!) edited the above to remove the world "nearby" either while I was replying or right after. Still leaving this comment up because it's worth pointing out just how far those caves are from Wuhan.

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Re:Evidence for a mouse origin of the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron var... by kennywinker on Monday January 03, 2022 @05:21AM (#29779222)

Since you called it out, and I live in Vancouver, BC - before the pandemic put a damper on travel I would say that Vancouver, BC and San Jose are pretty close - not geographically but for virus transmission. More important than physical distance, for a virus, is how often and how many potential carriers move between the locations.

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