Coronavirus, SARS and the global habitat crisis
Why do so many virus epidemics seem to be coming from China? Well, viruses thrive where the population density is high, and Wuhan is larger than any American city. But there are also the unregulated fresh air markets:
"Dozens of species that rarely, if ever, come in contact with one another in the wild ― fish, turtles, snakes, bamboo rats, bats, even foxes and wolf cubs ― are confined in close quarters, waiting to be butchered and sold. The animals are often stressed, dehydrated and shedding live viruses; the floors, stalls and tables are covered in blood, feces and other bodily fluids."
Viruses don't observe international boundaries. This is a threat to humanity.
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"The human health threat isn’t so much subsistence hunting of wild animal meat or the presence of any single exotic species at markets, but rather commercialization of the wildlife trade, Knights said. Each new species brought into a crowded market represents another set of pathogens and viruses, increasing the risk of cross-species transmission. Making matters worse, he said, is deforestation, which exposes humans to new areas, the wildlife that lives there and the viruses the animals carry."
Habitat destruction is feed this dangerous mechanism. It's not just the burning, the flooding, the fresh water shortages and eventual resource wars that will kill us, it's new and deadly pathogens.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/china-coronavirus-wet-markets-disease_n_5e3df0a2c5b6bb0ffc1113fd
"Dozens of species that rarely, if ever, come in contact with one another in the wild ― fish, turtles, snakes, bamboo rats, bats, even foxes and wolf cubs ― are confined in close quarters, waiting to be butchered and sold. The animals are often stressed, dehydrated and shedding live viruses; the floors, stalls and tables are covered in blood, feces and other bodily fluids."
Viruses don't observe international boundaries. This is a threat to humanity.
Also too:
"The human health threat isn’t so much subsistence hunting of wild animal meat or the presence of any single exotic species at markets, but rather commercialization of the wildlife trade, Knights said. Each new species brought into a crowded market represents another set of pathogens and viruses, increasing the risk of cross-species transmission. Making matters worse, he said, is deforestation, which exposes humans to new areas, the wildlife that lives there and the viruses the animals carry."
Habitat destruction is feed this dangerous mechanism. It's not just the burning, the flooding, the fresh water shortages and eventual resource wars that will kill us, it's new and deadly pathogens.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/china-coronavirus-wet-markets-disease_n_5e3df0a2c5b6bb0ffc1113fd
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