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Thread #167533   Message #4042938
Posted By: Stilly River Sage
29-Mar-20 - 03:38 PM
Thread Name: BS: proof of covid cause
Subject: RE: BS: proof of covid cause
There have been several stories documenting the virus jumping from a bat to a snake that ate it that ended up in a wildlife "wet market."

David Quammen wrote about the potential for this kind of thing happening in his 2012 book Spillover: Animal infections and the next human pandemic.

Here's a more recent story about it from National Public Radio. In that case it was an instance of a civet getting it from a bat.