Wild-Animal Markets Pose Rising Pandemic Threat (nature.com)
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- News link: https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/06/03/1410205/wild-animal-markets-pose-rising-pandemic-threat
- Source link: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-01690-z
Scientists studying markets like Jakarta's Jatinegara found that coronavirus detection rates in trafficked animals increase dramatically along supply chains, with rats sold at Vietnamese markets testing positive at rates ten times higher than those caught in fields. Pangolins confiscated in Vietnam showed a seven-fold increase in coronavirus infections compared to animals seized earlier in the smuggling process.
The research comes as political headwinds have severely reduced funding for pandemic preparedness, with the Trump administration terminating a $125-million disease monitoring program and cutting all USAID functions. Scientists report growing reluctance from government officials to authorize publication of pathogen discoveries, fearing stigma and trade restrictions, while wildlife traders increasingly avoid participating in studies that could reveal new health risks.
[1] https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-01690-z
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You guys are absolutely hilarious.
Dude, give up: your lie was exposed, everyone understands what you did. You can't re-hide it.
Go Vegan... And Nobody Gets Hurt (Score:1)
Really, just stop eating animals.
It's disgusting and unhealthy for people and the planet. (Not to mention the animals)
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"Disgusting" is an emotional condemnation, and it's ridiculous. It's not disgusting when a tiger does it, why should it be disgusting when an omnivore like a human does? This is just misapplied hatred for your species - it's wrong if we do it, even when the vast majority of animal life ends with being eaten."You" might find it disgusting... and that's fine. But the blanket condemnation is not yours to make on behalf of everybody. 2% of the human population is vegan, about 15% vegetarian.
"Unhealthy" is very
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When I die, I want someone to take my body out to the woods and dump it, so the wild animals can eat me. It's only fair.
I'm serious.
Unfortunately, that's not legal. So I'll be burned or buried and I can't give something back.
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Proper corpse disposal breaks a lot of life cycles for disease vectors, like sanitary sewer systems do while preventing you from... giving back to your soil.
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> It's not disgusting when a tiger does it, why should it be disgusting when an omnivore like a human does?
let me think about this profound question about half a second. yes: because a tiger has no other alternative, doesn't know better and just hunts what it can eat, as opposed to omnivores like humans bringing on an industrial scale millions of sentient beings into a miserable life under conditions which often amount to torture just so that other omnivores can stuff one slice of bacon after another into their drippy mouthes without any effort and increase their chance of a happy and satisfied death by cardiova
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Your post just reeks of that same personal bias. And you've move the goalposts a very long way.
Agency doesn't nullify basic biology. Being aware of the fact that you are eating an animal doesn't change the situation.
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It's also disgusting when a tiger does it.
Nature is a horror show.
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Yeah, eating what we evolved to eat is totally disgusting and unhealthy. Because...?
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... it's unhealthy and disgusting.
I bet you buy all of your meat cleaned and neatly wrapped in plastic at the grocery.
You're missing the whole blood, gore, and violence part of the process.
Re: Go Vegan... And Nobody Gets Hurt (Score:2)
Stop the other omnivores from eating meat first.
I bet you have a cat you feed rice and lentils.
setting up (Score:1)
the next managed release of a manufactured disease by the interagency.
Not just wild animals.. (Score:2)
Farmed animals are a fantastic breeding ground for pathogens as well.
Just look at what's going on with the bird flu right now.
It's almost like there's a pattern with keeping animals captive.....!
Why do they act like the US has to pay for it? (Score:1)
> Live-animal markets are a natural laboratory for viruses to evolve and spark deadly outbreaks, yet scientists lack support to study the risks they pose.
Well, tell that to Vietnam, Thailand and China. The US taxpayer is not responsible for sanitation standards in their nations. I can't afford to try to save them from themselves.
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China banned wild animal markets. It has 6 trillion of foreign reserves in the bank though and it's right next to these countries ... I thought China wanted to take a greater place on the world stage, why does it all have to fall on the US still?
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Their problems become our problems because microbes don't respect borders, and are not sending their best.
We're all doomed (Score:2)
[1]https://youtu.be/V7NlFWh7Sz8 [youtu.be]
[1] https://youtu.be/V7NlFWh7Sz8
Unpossible (Score:2)
I have it on good authority from randos on the internet that the only known cause of pandemics is people in white coats using technologies that don't exist to engineer viruses for bio weapons. And under no circumstances are you to question the efficacy of a bio-weapon versus good ole fashioned bombs because who are we to question random people on the internet?
I mean you really think somebody would do that? Just go on the internet and lie?
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Don't feed the conspiratrolls
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The virus was completely unknown until it happened to surface in Wuhan, near a lab doing research on ACE2 binding chimeric corona viruses in cooperation with Baric and Daszak. That it's everywhere now, including in other animals with ACE2 receptors, has little bearing on the origin.
God the bots are going to be in rare form today (Score:2)
Just to get this out of the way.
1. We do not have the technology to engineer viable viruses. Gain of function research results in changes that do not persist across generations. Any country that solves that problem wouldn't be wasting the technology on bio weapons that could backfire on their own troops they would be patenting it making a killing off of advanced medicine.
2. Covid is defeated by mask wearing and hand washing. The only reason it was such a mess is we having competent buffoons in charg
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> a biohazard lab would have had no issues containing covid whatsoever
Point of order: mistakes are made. Take the Sverdlovsk incident for example - which released anthrax, much easier to contain than a virus. You can add layers of protocols and equipment, but if the holes in the Swiss cheese eventually align, there will be an incident.