Today is New Year`s Eve.
This year`s Spring Festival is doomed to be colder than in previous years.
I believe everyone is as concerned about the progress of the new coronavirus epidemic as we are about New Year`s Eve.
As of 12:57 on January 24,881 new cases of coronavirus pneumonia had been diagnosed nationwide.
On January 20, academician Zhong Nanshan said the new source of coronavirus was likely to be wild animals.
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On january 23rd gao fu, director of the chinese center for disease control, a member of the chinese academy of sciences, said in a news interview on cctv that the source of the virus was wild animals sold illegally in the south china seafood market in wuhan.
Gao said the virus was not only seen in infected humans, but also isolated from the stalls where wild animals were sold illegally in the South China Seafood Market.
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Misfortune: south china game wholesale market south china seafood market, the largest seafood market in central china, is also the earliest place of the outbreak, only more than 1 km away from hankou train station.
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The South China Seafood Market is also known as the "game market ".
A net spread of the market "quotation table ", impressively marked dozens of game, from a dozen to hundreds of dollars.
The menu is full Peacock, fox, hedgehog And so on game, even pangolins such as the national protection of animals are in the list, and even Civet - One of the source of SARS infection in 2003!
Photo from a local internet user in Wuhan
In the wake of the outbreak, the angry release of a South China Seafood Market to sell wild animals Weibo, and said that "the management of the long time ago! 」
Dirty cages, cross-flowing sewage, and mixed wildlife, such a harsh environment is almost the perfect place to spread the virus.
Media reports, but also sit on the market to buy game information.
On december 31st the news went to visit the seafood market in south china. A store in the market was filled with venison cages.
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On the afternoon of december 31st, the owner of a stall in south china`s seafood market told red star news`s journallist that there were several venisons on the sixth street and many varieties of pheasants and snakes." You`re late. 」
And as the epidemic cases are made public, more and more evidence points to wildlife in the South China Seafood Market.
In a notice issued by the wuhan health and health commission on january 11th,41 patients were found to be mainly wholesale market operators and purchasing staff of the south china seafood market. The first death patient was also a perennial buyer of goods in the south china seafood market in wuhan.
Wildlife is already the biggest culprit in the epidemic. From SARS to plague, animals are fierce but this is not the first outbreak of the virus caused by wild animals.
SARS coronavirus
In 2003,774 cases of death and 8069 cases of SARS worldwide showed the international community the ability and lethality of a new type of coronavirus that could be transmitted through droplets.
They were traced back to the farmers`market, where they found the beaver (later identified as the intermediate host). To prevent the further spread of the SARS virus, more than 10,000 beavers, badgers and raccoon dogs were quickly killed.
Middle Eastern respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS virus)
In 2012, a disease caused by a new type of coronavirus, toxicity respiratory disease, was found in saudi arabia, where about 35% of patients had died and the fatality rate even exceeded sars.
Current scientific evidence suggests that single-peaked camels are a major host of the coronavirus of Middle Eastern respiratory syndrome and have been shown to be an animal source of MERS infection.
A single camel is something many visitors will experience, and the meat, palms and humps are not a rare dish on a game table.
pestis
From 2010 to 2015, a total of 3248 cases of plague were reported worldwide, including 584 cases of plague. Historically, plague was a pandemic that led to high rates of plague. Known as the Black Death in the 14 th century, it caused about 50 million deaths in Europe.
In November 2019," Beijing plague "mounted a hot search, causing a moment of panic, possibly due to visitors`intimate contact with marmots.
And just six months ago, in April, a Mongolian couple ate uncooked marmot guts and then died. How did the deadly virus spread from animals to humans? It`s no surprise that wild animals carry viruses.
Viruses need to be parasitic on living organisms to survive and can also be transmitted in different intermediate hosts. Most importantly, the virus is prone to mutation during transmission.
Whether it`s the SARS virus or the flu virus, mutations make them more susceptible to humans, as well as more powerful and pathogenic.
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In the case of SARS 17 years ago, the general public agrees that the beaver is the source of the SARS virus, but in fact, the beaver is only an intermediate host. In 2017, Shi Zhengli, a researcher at the Wuhan Institute of Virus Research at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, successfully confirmed that the bat is the natural host of the coronavirus.
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Current gene sequencing results show that the coronavirus and SARS coronavirus are highly similar and likely to have been derived from bats, and that the real culprits may need further research to determine.
So much was said, not to stir up panics about wild animals.
The virus dies with its host`s death, which means that most of the viruses in wild animals are "self-destructing ".
A closer look at these outbreaks seems to be not a "natural disaster" but a "man-made disaster ".
Both have more or less to do with eating wild food. A persistent taste of the Chinese taste of game, there is always a clinging.
"Strong yang "," milk "," big supplement 」……
For example: pangolin is good at making holes, so the ancients were greatly inspired to think that pangolin has the effect of "getting through ". So far, in many places, pangolin has the effect of "milk" and "tonic ". After having a baby, we must" boil pangolin soup "and drink it.
For such absurd reasons, many wild animals are eaten as endangered species.
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A lot of people will eat venison as a "taste of fresh food,"" experience life," even people will feel that" rare things are expensive," eating venison is a symbol of identity, is the capital to show off.
Just to show off and hunt, more and more wild animals are becoming a symbol of diners`identity, and they are doomed to be served at the table.
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Image caption A video of a blogger eating and broadcasting
I don`t know, when you hold up your camera to photograph the game show in front of Timeline, there`s a very high price for this plate of "delicious ", is likely to hide the deadly virus.
And your experience will send more people into the risk spiral of a virus epidemic. In 2017, Shi said in a speech on tracking the source of SARS:
"Although SARS hasn`t returned in so many years, the virus, which is similar to SARS, still exists in nature. If we humans are not vigilant, then the possibility that the next viral infection, which could be either direct or human through other animals, is complete. 」
A prophecy.
After the SARS, Guangdong province issued a ban in 2004, which fully killed the wild animal market, banned wildlife trade and closed the wild animal market.
It wasn`t long before people, as if they had never seen its prowess before, returned to the diner`s table with game such as beavers and bats. Forget the greatness of sex, it`s astounding...
At present, Wuhan South China Wildlife Wholesale Market has been closed. But there is still a business lucky," after the first month come again."
And like Guangdong Foshan and other places "game New Year`s Eve ", or still hot.
Photo Source: Beijing News Weibo Some say the virus, which is a wild animal revenge on humans.
Rather, the lesson is not enough pain, memory is not enough.
From SARS to this new type of pneumonia, the tragedy of history has never been able to teach people to "shut up ".
This time, we can certainly beat the virus again.
But next time?
How will we deal with the return of more aggressive and brutal viruses?
No game. Keep your mouth shut.
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