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For Experts Who Study Coronaviruses, a Grim Vindication
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<blockquote data-quote="cheryl" data-source="post: 2263" data-attributes="member: 1"><p><a href="https://undark.org/2020/06/08/for-experts-who-study-coronaviruses-a-grim-vindication/" target="_blank"><strong>For Experts Who Study Coronaviruses, a Grim Vindication - Undark</strong></a></p><p></p><p><strong>They warned that the next great pandemic would be a coronavirus, but research funding went to studying other threats. </strong></p><p></p><p>The now prophetic words could be found buried at the end of a <a href="https://cmr.asm.org/content/20/4/660" target="_blank">research paper</a> published in the journal Clinical Microbiology Reviews in October of 2007: “The presence of a large reservoir of SARS-CoV-like viruses in horseshoe bats, together with the culture of eating exotic animals in southern China, is a time bomb.”</p><p></p><p>The warning — made nearly 13 years ago and more than four years after a worrying first wave of severe acute respiratory syndrome, or <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/sars/guidance/core/intro.html" target="_blank">SARS</a>, killed nearly 800 people globally — was among the earliest to predict the emergence of something like SARS-CoV-2, the virus behind the current pandemic of Covid-19.</p><p></p><p>Many other warnings would follow.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cheryl, post: 2263, member: 1"] [URL='https://undark.org/2020/06/08/for-experts-who-study-coronaviruses-a-grim-vindication/'][B]For Experts Who Study Coronaviruses, a Grim Vindication - Undark[/B][/URL] [B]They warned that the next great pandemic would be a coronavirus, but research funding went to studying other threats. [/B] The now prophetic words could be found buried at the end of a [URL='https://cmr.asm.org/content/20/4/660']research paper[/URL] published in the journal Clinical Microbiology Reviews in October of 2007: “The presence of a large reservoir of SARS-CoV-like viruses in horseshoe bats, together with the culture of eating exotic animals in southern China, is a time bomb.” The warning — made nearly 13 years ago and more than four years after a worrying first wave of severe acute respiratory syndrome, or [URL='https://www.cdc.gov/sars/guidance/core/intro.html']SARS[/URL], killed nearly 800 people globally — was among the earliest to predict the emergence of something like SARS-CoV-2, the virus behind the current pandemic of Covid-19. Many other warnings would follow. [/QUOTE]
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