03Lightningrocks wrote: Mon Feb 10, 2020 1:14 pm
GeekwithaGun wrote: Mon Feb 10, 2020 1:06 pm
Isn't it interesting how these major viral outbreaks all seem to originate in China? SARS, H1N1, coronavirus
I think it is a combination of there being just too darn many of them piled up like checkers and eating weird animals that people should not eat.
That's a good start... I'll add food handling to that as well. Live animals being sold in the same markets as room-temperature butchered meats and other foods (some intended to be eaten without further cooking) is a recipe for illness.
In China I've eaten a lot of fish that I picked swimming from a tank. Cooked vegetables I saw the farmer bring in the door. FRESH. I try to stay away from uncooked things always (bean sprouts scare me from a sanitation viewpoint, since they're added last and often not cooked at all). Traditional wok-cooked food is typically no problem.
I'd bet they change the laws on live animal markets after this mess.