Tag: Bats

77 – Virus Attack

Ebola, Nipah, Sars, Coronavirus all of these deadly viruses created havoc in the past few years. While China is still fighting to curb the menace of coronavirus and quarantining the cities, issuing an advisory to the travelers and keeping an eye on the outbreak.

While we wonder about where do all these viruses come from, where is it all begun and why these viruses turned out so fatal. We can take a look back at the Ebola outbreak which created havoc in Africa 11,000 deaths were reported. Sars which is known as a severe acute respiratory syndrome, began in China in 2002 which killed 800 deaths. Coronavirus outbreaks in China which reportedly killed 1,500 people.

In all of these epidemics, one thing is common, it all comes from the animals and to be precise from the bats and it’s not the bat’s fault its the fault of us, we are the ones who are invading in their territories and consuming them. In Malaysia spreading commercial pig farms in the bat inhabited territory was the main reason for the outbreak. In Africa, bushmeat is very famous were fruitbats are hunted, sold and consumed.

Bats do appear to carry more human-killing viruses than any other animal, around 60 human infecting viruses. Guess we can love batman but not bats though.

74 – China and Corona

It’s the time of New year and celebrations, I am not talking about India’s, I am talking about China’s, it’s a rat year or year of the rat as they call it. Chinese people celebrate their new year on the 25th of January according to the Chinese calendar. Chinese people plan their travel and holidays to enjoy and celebrate the new year with their family in a different city or country but this year thing turns around when news breaks about a deadly disease which is effecting, spreading and even killing the people who got in contact with the virus, corona-virus.

According to South China Morning News, because of Coronavirus 40 people have been died and 1400 people are infected, the first case of coronavirus is surfaced in Wuhan province of China, the outbreak is spreading fast and WHO (Wolrd Health Organisation) planning to call it Public health emergency as the virus spread across the countries and has sickened people in Taiwan, Vietnam, Japan, Thailand, South Korea, and the United States.

China declared an emergency and canceled all the new year celebration programs, Chinese police officials quarantined Wuhan province and locked down all the roads, airports and transport ways, so no one can go in or out of the city to prevent the virus from spreading. According to news portals, science journals Coronavirus is a group of viruses that can be found or originated in bats or civets and can be transmissible from animals to humans and humans to humans, no medicine or vaccines has been developed to cure the diseases which makes it a lethal one.