Post by greybeard on Jan 22, 2020 21:55:57 GMT -6
I heard from a pilot on another board that flies one of the routes all over China and Vietnam. Wuhan, the capital of China’s Hubei province has been placed in full quarantine, and all travel in and out is prohibited except military and medical people. Surgical masks are all but sold out in every major Chinese city, but from what I've heard elsewhere, that genie is already out of the bag.
Then, there's this:
www.livescience.com/unknown-viruses-discovered-tibetan-glacier.html
Have they unwittingly let the genie out of the bottle?
Then, there's this:
www.livescience.com/unknown-viruses-discovered-tibetan-glacier.html
For the past 15,000 years, a glacier on the northwestern Tibetan Plateau of China has hosted a party for some unusual guests: an ensemble of frozen viruses, many of them unknown to modern science.
Scientists recently broke up this party after taking a look at two ice cores from this Tibetan glacier, revealing the existence of 28 never-before-seen virus groups.
Investigating these mysterious viruses could help scientists on two fronts: For one, these stowaways can teach researchers which viruses thrived in different climates and environments over time, the researchers wrote in a paper posted on the bioRxiv database on Jan. 7.
Scientists recently broke up this party after taking a look at two ice cores from this Tibetan glacier, revealing the existence of 28 never-before-seen virus groups.
Investigating these mysterious viruses could help scientists on two fronts: For one, these stowaways can teach researchers which viruses thrived in different climates and environments over time, the researchers wrote in a paper posted on the bioRxiv database on Jan. 7.
Have they unwittingly let the genie out of the bottle?
