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you know that fields where they grow rice, corn and wheat are literally teaming with animals, mice, bird etc. People are lierally going into those fields - Stop that - no plant products to eat either. It just makes sense. Fish - let's eat fish - wait Eddie says there are viruses in fish too- arenaviruses, filoviruses - please we MUST stop all the madness - no contact with animals ever - where is the UN on this? We need a commission! [2021-03-12 08:16:49] [Andrew Rambaut] Nipah - don't eat tree sap that bats might have pissed on. [2021-03-12 09:01:39] [Robert Garry] [thread - ID: 2021-03-12 09:01:39] https://twitter.com/Bobby_Network Clever: Eddie morphing to Shi, Daszak Baric etc [shared file(s): image.png, image.png, image.png] [2021-03-12 09:37:14] [Kristian Andersen] Somebody needs to turn off the internet. [2021-03-12 09:50:18] [Robert Garry] That too - it's so dangerous we shouldn't even use it at all - if there's only a 1 in a trillion chance it could creates a dangerous cult that explodes bombs and releases deadly viruses we must stop - now - please! [2021-03-12 12:00:26] [Robert Garry] "A total of 23 different bat species were tested in this study (Table S1). Samples were 619 collected between May 2019 and November 2020 from Mengla County, Yunnan Province in southern China (101.271563 E, 21.918897 N; 101.220091 E, 21.593202 621 N and 101.297471 E, 21.920934 N). The Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden has an ethics committee that provided permission for trapping and bat surveys within 623 this study." @Eddie Holmes do you happen to have Table S1 from Zhou2021? OR a month and year when RpYN06 and RsYN06 were collected. Updating Holmes 2021 figs etc. [2021-03-12 12:18:11] [Eddie Holmes] I'll email them all to you Bob - I'll just make a cup of tea...as long as turning on the kettle is not deemed too dangerous [2021-03-12 12:22:07] [Eddie Holmes] Had a chat to Linfa and it seems he has more positive pangolins. He's going to run his VirScan-like assays on Tommy's. I think we have 7 positive animals. Of course, that bats may be passing the virus to pangolins does nearly show that virus jump between species in nature. Who would have thought!! [2021-03-12 12:27:37] [Robert Garry] Thanks Eddie. I understand that bats etc live in Sri Lanka and other tea growing countries - so yes better to curtail that overly risky activity going forward. Agreed the pango story is an interesting one on many levels - lots of important CoV evolution and ecology to sort. That is unless the Parisites have their way and all this threatening virology is stopped. [2021-03-12 12:33:14] [Eddie Holmes] You're right! I had better stick to coffee...oh no, civets shit coffee beans!!! [2021-03-12 12:38:33] [Eddie Holmes]