Coronavirus 2019-2020 thread (no unsubstantiated rumours!)
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And they never did much about it when some of their people caught a rather strange flu like illness.
Mr T
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I don't see what the point of that would be. From the information available, human-to-human transmission seems to be by far the biggest cause of the virus spreading. I'm not aware that food stuffs are a significant vector, and if they were you'd probably need to the same with all exports and imports.
Besides, you can spray fruit that has a disposable husk with an antiseptic spray. You'd just need to wash them afterwards with plenty of water.
I think the article suggested frozen pork is still being imported but subjected to stricter inspection. However, the demand seems to have taken a hit and locally produced products are being favored by consumer.
This is because the COVID-19 virus can remain active at low temperature.
" Top Chinese epidemiologist Li Lanjuan said the coronavirus is particularly cold-resistant and can survive for months at -4 C and 20 years at -20 C, which explains why the virus has been found several times in seafood markets, and the virus can be transported across borders, the China News Service reported on Friday. "
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Fresh food may not be as harmful since most are mechanically cleansed before shipment, Frozen food is more risky because of high infection rate at slaughterhouse and meat handling facilities.
Or blamed that on vaping.
Strange when only those vaping in USA seemed to be catching it and not vaping in so many other countries.
But you are usually cooking frozen food, and I don’t imagine raw pork being a thing.
Frozen food is also unlikely to produce droplets/aerosol spray.
That being said, who really knows? Time/study will tell.
Quickie
Colonel
Have the Italians come out with the full decoding of the virus genome? It's possibly very telling in terms of the variant of the virus and where it first appeared in the timespan of the appearance of the virus.
It's interesting to note that the first genome of the virus in Wuhan that was decoded in China is the variant B type and samples of the variant A type (which is the parent of type B) was only found later around the world during the course of the pandemic.
As in the Beijing market. Frozen meat are not being cooked right away. They are defrosted, cut to pieces and sold as retail. The cutting board gets infected,. Butcher/ cutter gets infected,. And eventually customer gets infected directly from butcher or through handling the meat before cooking. Need a bit of imagination.
Btw the article mentions both frozen seafood and meat product. Not just pork.
Inconsequential who owner of company which sold the product from highly infectious countries,. Preventing or delaying second wave is paramount.
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