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Coronaviruses are named for the crown-like spikes on their surface. Human coronaviruses were first identified in the mid-1960s. They are closely monitored by public health officials.
Coronaviruses
Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) A novel coronavirus (COVID-19, previously referred to as 2019-nCoV) emerged in a seafood and poultry market in the Chinese city of Wuhan in 2019. The disease is likely contracted from close contact with an infected, as yet unidentified, animal. Human-to-human transmission occurs through close contact.
Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) was first reported in 2012 in Saudi Arabia and spread to more than 25 other countries. MERS originated in camels and emerged to infect people. Symptoms usually include fever, cough, and shortness of breath, and often progress to pneumonia. About 3 or 4 out of every 10 patients reported with MERS have died. MERS cases continue to occur, primarily in the Arabian Peninsula; however, as of 2019, there have been only two confirmed cases of MERS in the US, both in 2014.
Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) originated in small mammal and emerged to infect people. SARS was first reported in Southern China in 2002 and the illness spread to more than two dozen countries in North America, South America, Europe, and Asia. Symptoms include fever, chills, and body aches, and may progress to pneumonia. Infection with the SARS virus causes acute respiratory distress (severe breathing difficulty), with a mortality rate of about 10 percent. No human cases of SARS have been reported anywhere in the world since 2004.
1930s Researchers believe that sometime in the 1930s a form of simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV) jumped to humans who butchered or ate chimpanzee bush meat in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The virus becomes HIV-1 the most widespread form found today 1959 The world’s first known case of AIDS has been traced to a sample of blood plasma from a man who died in the Democratic Republic of Congo in 1959 1960s HIV-2, which is restricted to West Africa, is thought to have transferred to people from sooty mangabey monkeys in Guinea-Bissau during the 1960s A genetic analysis of HIV in 2003 suggests that it may have first arrived in the United States in about 1968
Timeline: HIV and AIDS
originally posted by: Stu112
a reply to: Zanti Misfit
Wouldn’t say it’s an act of war but I would say it’s ridiculous that people believe a disease just pops up in this way from a bowl of soup.
This is not some # from animals, food, whatever, this is from the lab in wuhan.
originally posted by: Zanti Misfit
a reply to: Stu112
It's Creation is an ACT Of WAR by the Communist Chinese . Isn't that Self evident to you by Now > ?
originally posted by: Stu112
Media doing a great job for China.
originally posted by: silo13
originally posted by: Zanti Misfit
a reply to: Stu112
It's Creation is an ACT Of WAR by the Communist Chinese . Isn't that Self evident to you by Now > ?
You bet it is!
My theory?
China was SO freakin' mortified over Trumps new trade rules?
They said *F* it! 'If China is going to suffer financially - so it the rest of the world'! (Level the playing field).
As for the 'old people' who are dying?
You think China cares?
NO!
All those resources that would have been 'wasted' on the 'old people' - now can go to the military. The young. Etc.
BIO WAR.
Period.
originally posted by: hounddoghowlie
a reply to: Stu112
first off, you have no proof or source for such a claim, just pure speculation.