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KOMPAS.com – After months of investigations, the World Health Organization (WHO) find out where the pandemic came from Covid-19 originated.
In its investigations, WHO found that wildlife farms in China Becomes the source of the Covid-19 pandemic.
As quoted from Live Science, Thursday (18/3/2021), according to Peter Daszak, a disease ecologist in the WHO team who conducted an investigation into China, around Yunna province in southern China there are many wildlife farms.
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According to him, these wildlife farmers are most likely supplying animals to traders at the Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market in Wuhan, where the first cases of Covid-19 were found.
Some of the supplied wild animals could have contracted SARS-CoV-2 from bats in the area.
Last January, a team of WHO experts traveled to China to investigate how this deadly pandemic first started.
Many conspiracy theories have spread about the origin of the virus, including that it escaped the Wuhan lab. But last month, WHO investigators brushed aside that explanation.
The general consensus among scientists is that the coronavirus circulates in bats and jumps to humans, possibly via an intermediate species.
And that general consensus was later found by WHO investigators, that the coronavirus was likely transmitted from bats in southern China to animals on wildlife farms. Only then spread to humans.
However, WHO still does not know which animal is the intermediary for the virus between bats and humans.
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Wildlife farming is part of a project the Chinese government has been promoting for 20 years to lift rural residents out of poverty.
“They take exotic animals, such as civets, hedgehogs, pangolins, raccoons and bamboo rats, and breed them in captivity,” Daszak said.
But in February 2020, China closed the farm, possibly because the Chinese government thought it was part of a transmission route from bats to humans.
The government then sends instructions to farmers on how to bury, kill, or burn the animals so they don’t spread disease.
“I think Covid-19 first hit people in Southern China. And it looks like that,” Daszak said.
WHO is expected to release the findings soon in a report in the coming weeks.
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