Thailand’s bat guano collectors undeterred by potential coronavirus connection

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[ThailandRyan]

The story I fear is full of feces and danger at every scrape and wipe.

[Haddo]

the original news report this is taken from is here https://www.facebook.com/pongsarid.tomechai/videos/4324563047558690

 

[schweizer]

Only post Covid do i now understand the term "Bat S#it Crazy" obviously someone knew the truth years ago

[PETERTHEEATER]

Robin should inform Batman to take care where he takes a dump....

[Artisi]

More nonsense, it's has been done for ages without any drama, now while all of a sudden has it become a problem. 

[unblocktheplanet]

WHO tells us Thai bats are the same species as those thought to be harbouring Covid infections. Speculation has been rife Covid came from here not Wuhan.

[Artisi]

6 minutes ago, unblocktheplanet said:

WHO tells us Thai bats are the same species as those thought to be harbouring Covid infections. Speculation has been rife Covid came from here not Wuhan.

Speculation is about as accurate as maybe.... 

[overherebc]

6 hours ago, PETERTHEEATER said:

Robin should inform Batman to take care where he takes a dump....

????

[RichardColeman]

Probably the same brain dead that were eating the poisoned fish

[Justgrazing]

is that what you call Batsh*t crazy .. guano is good for ganja cultivation especially the latter stages .. 

[gunderhill]

What could  possibly  go wrong

 

Transmission to humans

Lyssaviruses like the rabies virus are transmitted from bats to humans via biting. Transmission of most other viruses does not appear to take place via biting, however. Contact with bat fluids such as guano, urine, and saliva is an important source of spillover from bats to humans.

[gunderhill]

9 hours ago, Artisi said:

Speculation is about as accurate as maybe.... 

Transmission to humans

Lyssaviruses like the rabies virus are transmitted from bats to humans via biting. Transmission of most other viruses does not appear to take place via biting, however. Contact with bat fluids such as guano, urine, and saliva is an important source of spillover from bats to humans.

[Artisi]

1 hour ago, gunderhill said:

Transmission to humans

Lyssaviruses like the rabies virus are transmitted from bats to humans via biting. Transmission of most other viruses does not appear to take place via biting, however. Contact with bat fluids such as guano, urine, and saliva is an important source of spillover from bats to humans.

The comment was about covid-19 starting in Thailand not Wuhan, nothing to do with bat /human transmission, suggest you re-read. 

[lujanit]

CNN posted an interesting piece by Dr. Robert Redfield formerly head of the CDC in which he says his opinion is that the virus escaped from the Wuhan Virus Lab.

 

https://www.cnn.com/2021/03/26/health/covid-war-doctors-sanjay-gupta/index.html

 

[gunderhill]

1 hour ago, Artisi said:

The comment was about covid-19 starting in Thailand not Wuhan, nothing to do with bat /human transmission, suggest you re-read. 

my bad this is  your reply I was answering too 

"More nonsense, it's has been done for ages without any drama, now while all of a sudden has it become a problem." 

[Artisi]

2 minutes ago, gunderhill said:

my bad this is  your reply I was answering too 

"More nonsense, it's has been done for ages without any drama, now while all of a sudden has it become a problem." 

Doesn't really change my view. 

[gunderhill]

3 hours ago, Artisi said:

Doesn't really change my view. 

It doesnt  change your view that going digging  out bat <deleted> wont lead to any bat/human  virus transfer????

Whilst it doesnt say they are any different in amount jumping species to other carriers they clearly  carry many viruses that have jumped to humans. Maybe before conditions werent ripe for this to spread so well.

 

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-01096-z

And as bats harbour several viruses that cause severe disease in people, including rabies, Ebola and severe acute respiratory syndrome-related coronavirus (SARS-CoV) it makes sense that they — along with rodents — are the focus of most viral-detection and surveillance efforts.

 

[rabas]

1 hour ago, gunderhill said:

It doesnt  change your view that going digging  out bat <deleted> wont lead to any bat/human  virus transfer????

Whilst it doesnt say they are any different in amount jumping species to other carriers they clearly  carry many viruses that have jumped to humans. Maybe before conditions werent ripe for this to spread so well.

 

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-01096-z

And as bats harbour several viruses that cause severe disease in people, including rabies, Ebola and severe acute respiratory syndrome-related coronavirus (SARS-CoV) it makes sense that they — along with rodents — are the focus of most viral-detection and surveillance efforts.

But this doesn't relate to the erroneous original point above that CoV-SARS-2 may have come from Thailand. The real point is that many bats, even Egyptian tomb bats (MERS), harbor dangerous viruses that may cause future disease.

 

The related Thai research paper in Nature reports on only one bat conronavirus found in a 1m irrigation pipe in Chachoengsao, which cannot be the source of the Chinese SARS-2 pandemic because it can't even bind to ACE2 receptors, which defines SARS viruses.