'It’s not hard to imagine how this could happen in our country, you know,' according to animal rights activist Audrey Delsink.
‘It’s not hard to imagine how this could happen in our country, you know,’ according to animal rights activist Audrey Delsink.
Chinese scientists suspected the virus may have been transmitted to humans at a Wuhan market where exotic animals were slaughtered, though conspiracy theories that the virus came from a maximum-security virology lab have also been brought into the mainstream by US government officials. But according to Delsink, the US government may be chasing after the wind as she thinks the virus may have originated in South Africa.: “People are so concerned that they are the host species and it’s not inconceivable to consider that it was a pangolin from South Africa that was in the mix there and was the intermediate host.
Delsink further told the publication images of animals “stacked on top of one another” in wet markets in China reflected what happened at “some” farms in South Africa.
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