@TomSea @Once-Ler @mystery-ak @musiclady @roamer_1 I will tell you how a new virus emerges from China and spreads around the world - I wrote about this in my book, "Emergencies Happen! Be Prepared Now!".
I was in China and saw how it happens; not long after I got home, another new virus was in China and they did extensive research and found what I already knew due to seeing the possibility. They could have saved a lot of money if they had called me - I would have told them - wild birds/ducks/chickens/sickness/deaths.
I was in the Chinese countryside where solid white Pekin Ducks are raised. They live in the entire open countryside (not in pens or coops) - as far as you can see, it looks like snow covers the land. These ducks have free roam walking among the people. Went to an open market - the ducks were walking among us and there were dead ducks and dead chickens hanging up on wires for sale.
This is what happens and what their researchers found:
1. Wild diseased birds land on the ducks and spread the new virus to the ducks, where they, unknowingly,
2. infect chickens on farms as they mingle among the chickens.
3. The farmers kill their chickens for family food, handle the dead chickens, getting the virus all over the farmer cooks, who spread the virus to the family members,
4. who spread it to everyone with whom they come in contact so the virial disease infects others.
5. Someone infected travels by air, spreads it to passengers who spread it when they leave the plane, and continue to infect others in the country where they now are.
6. At the end of the research for this virus, they now know the ducks must be killed to stop the spread of the virus. They killed all ducks where disease was.
So, now, today, there is a new virus. Can't kill all wild birds, so, I believe thousands/to millions of Pekin Ducts are going to be killed again. It is also possible that mosquitoes bite the wild birds, carry the virus, and then bite Pekin Ducks.
Advice: If you fly to somewhere, do not use the first bathroom available when you get off the plane. People tend to go to the first one so they can have more privacy than on the plane and anyone sick is for sure going to that one and they will leave virus or bacteria in that bathroom. Wait until you get to another bathroom away from the first one. When you have finished using the potty, do not touch your face until after you wash your hands well with provided soap and water. After that, if you have a bottle or sheet of hand sanitizer, use it when out of the bathroom.
