The internet is great but one of the downsides is that their are some real whackjobs on it as we are finding out with the nonsense being spouted around the origins of the Coronavirus which range from being engineered and then escaping from a laboratory to being released delibretly by the Chinese Government to suppress the people Hong Kong.
The Scripps Research Institute in the US, UK and Australia, a far better source then some Insurance Salesman with an internet connection, have said that the COVID-19 began from a single introduction into the human population and is a mutated human version of a known viruses found in bats and pangolins.
Viruses evolving from a non-human host and then jumping to humans is not unknown and is exactly how previous virus outbreaks have emerged, with humans contracting new fatal viruses after direct exposure to civets (SARS), camels (MERS), bats (Ebola), chimps (HIV), monkeys (Dengue), Rats (Lassa fever), Pigs (Nipah) and chickens (Bird Flu).
Pathogens crossing from animals to humans is becoming more widespread, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates that three-quarters of new or emerging diseases that infect humans originate in animals, and human activity in the shape of logging, mining, road building, urbanisation and population growth is bringing people into closer contact with animal species they may never have been near before.
With what we are doing to the planet with our pollution and developing weapons awful enough to destroy ourselves many times over, it seems us humans are determined to bring about our own demise one way or another.
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