Lets talk about cats baby, lets talk about you and me

originally posted by: itswhatev


Jumping ahead felines are another animal specifically mentioned since the very beginning in some form.

From 2003, the year the SARS coronavirus (SARS-CoV) was identified and the Wuhan Institute of Virology lab began construction.

In theory, SARS leapt from a wild beast to a human when it acquired the molecular “keys” to gain entry to our cells, explains Lai. To do that, it may have first mingled with a human virus brewing inside another species. A pig, for example, can serve as a genetic mixing bowl when co-infected with two viruses, allowing them to swap genes.
In a recent experiment to show how easily the coronavirus can morph and become harmful in a new species, Peter Rottier of Utrecht University in the Netherlands simulated a gene swap by taking a coronavirus that is lethal to cats and adding a single gene fragment from a mouse virus. The recombinant virus was lethal to both animals. “Coronaviruses have a unique ability to mix with other viruses,” Lai says.
Meanwhile, scientists from Lyon to Winnipeg are spraying, injecting, and orally feeding the coronavirus to monkeys, dogs, cats, mice and rabbits. Goats and sheep are next. “We want to see how they react to high doses of the virus, how susceptible they are, which replicate the virus, which excrete it, which show antibodies,” says Klaus Stohr, chief SARS scientist for the World Health Organization’s Animal Influenza Network.

This part . . . "taking a coronavirus that is lethal to cats and adding a single gene fragment from a mouse virus. The recombinant virus was lethal to both animals."

And this one . . ."spraying, injecting, and orally feeding the coronavirus to monkeys, dogs, cats, mice and rabbits. Goats and sheep are next."

So then, the gene splicing has been going on since the day SARS was identified, and people still wonder where COVID-19 came from and why so many animals can get and pass it to around to other species like humans.

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originally posted by: Night Star

Rofl.

I think we found patient zero.

Sharon!!!!!!!

a reply to: MykeNukem

Bahaha!