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\nChinese Horseshoe Bat<\/span> (Naturalis Biodiversity Center)<\/em><\/p>\n

COGwriter<\/a><\/p>\n

Where did COVID-19 come from? National Public Radio<\/em> (NPR) reported the following:<\/p>\n

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Where Did The Coronavirus Originate? Virus Hunters Find Genetic Clues In Bats<\/h2>\n

April 15, 2020<\/p>\n

The 2003 outbreak of SARS was eventually traced to horseshoe bats in a cave in the Yunnan province of China, confirmed by a 2017 paper<\/a> published in the journal Nature. It was a detective hunt that took over a decade, sampling the feces, urine, or blood of thousands of horseshoe bats<\/a> across the country and seeing if those samples are a genetic match<\/a> to the virus. …<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In early January 2020, Chinese scientists sequenced the entire genome for SARS-CoV-2 and published it online<\/a>. Researchers at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China compared its genome to a library of known viruses \u2014 and found a 96% match<\/a> with coronavirus samples taken from horseshoe bats from Yunnan.<\/p>\n

“But that 4% difference is actually a pretty wide distance in evolutionary time. It could even be decades,” says Dr. Robert F. Garry, professor of microbiology and immunology at Tulane University School of Medicine.<\/p>\n

That extra 4% suggests the SARS-CoV-2 may not have evolved from bats alone, but may include viral material from another animal. In that case, the virus would have continued to evolve through natural selection in that animal. Moreover, that other animal may have acted as an “intermediate host,”<\/a> ultimately transmitting the virus to humans.<\/p>\n

With this coronavirus, scientists aren’t fully clear on whether an intermediate host was involved nor the chain of cross-species transmission to humans. Early reports<\/a> suggested the pangolin, also called scaly anteaters, which are vulnerable to illegal wildlife trade<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Robert Garry and fellow researchers have hypothesized<\/a> that SARS-CoV-2 could be a blend of viruses from bats and another animal.<\/p>\n

“The receptor binding domain actually shares a lot of sequence similarity to a virus that’s found in the pangolin” Garry said, referring to the receptor-binding mechanism<\/a> that allows the virus to form a strong attachment to human cells. “So, those sequences probably did arise from a virus like the pangolin coronavirus, or maybe some other coronavirus that can circulate in pangolins or some other animals.” https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2020\/04\/14\/834109166\/where-did-the-coronavirus-originate-virus-hunters-find-genetic-clues-in-bats<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yes, human consumption of biblically unclean animals, like bats, seems to be a cause of the current problem.<\/p>\n

The Bible specifically teaches that humans should not eat bats. Notice:<\/p>\n

12 But these you shall not eat:<\/strong> the eagle, the vulture, the buzzard, 13 the red kite, the falcon, and the kite after their kinds; 14 every raven after its kind; 15 the ostrich, the short-eared owl, the sea gull, and the hawk after their kinds; 16 the little owl, the screech owl, the white owl, 17 the jackdaw, the carrion vulture, the fisher owl, 18 the stork, the heron after its kind, and the hoopoe and the bat<\/strong>. (Deuteronomy 14:11-18)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Avoiding consuming biblically-unclean meat is something that is wise. Yet, we are not hearing major governments telling people to stop eating unclean animals.<\/p>\n

But since humans often ignore God\u2019s admonitions, more pestilences are expected (e.g. Matthew 24:8).<\/p>\n

Various unclean animals, like pangolins, have been implicated in COVID-19.<\/p>\n

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\nPangolin (Piekfrosch<\/a><\/span><\/span>)<\/em><\/p>\n

As reported here a couple of weeks ago, one view is it that viruses in two unclean animals resulted in SARS-CoV-2, while another is that the bat virus went to snakes or pangolins to humans:<\/p>\n

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Coronavirus Could Be a \u2018Chimera\u2019 of Two Different Viruses, Genome Analysis Suggests<\/h2>\n

In the space of a few weeks, we have all learned a lot about COVID-19 and the virus that causes it: SARS-CoV-2. …<\/p>\n

In which animal species did it occur? A bat, a pangolin or another wild species? Where does it come from? … many Betacoronaviruses<\/em> have been discovered, mainly in bats, but also in humans. …<\/p>\n

These results indicate that bats, and in particular species of the genus Rhinolophus<\/em>, constitute the reservoir of the SARS-CoV and SARS-CoV-2 viruses. … genomic comparisons suggest that the SARS-Cov-2 virus is the result of a recombination between two different viruses, one close to RaTG13 and the other closer to the pangolin virus. In other words, it is a chimera between two pre-existing viruses.<\/p>\n

This recombination mechanism had already been described<\/a> in coronaviruses, in particular to explain the origin of SARS-CoV. It is important to know that recombination results in a new virus potentially capable of infecting a new host species.<\/p>\n

For recombination to occur, the two divergent viruses must have infected the same organism simultaneously.<\/p>\n

Two questions remain unanswered: in which organism did this recombination occur? (a bat, a pangolin or another species?) 03\/24\/20 https:\/\/themindunleashed.com\/2020\/03\/coronavirus-could-be-a-chimera-of-two-different-viruses-genome-analysis-suggests.html<\/a><\/p>\n

As scientists scramble to learn more about the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, two recent studies of the virus’ genome reached controversial conclusions: namely, that snakes are intermediate hosts of the new virus, and that a key coronavirus protein shares “uncanny similarities” with an HIV-1 protein. Now, a study in ACS’ Journal of Proteome Research<\/em> refutes both ideas and suggests that scaly, anteater-like animals called pangolins are the missing link for SARS-CoV-2 transmission between bats and humans. https:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2020\/03\/200326144342.htm<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

If this is a combination of two other viruses and\/or multiple animals are involved, this would explain why some have felt that it was intentionally (like as an agent for Biological Warfare<\/a><\/span>) or accidentally made by humans in a lab, or, if not, why it might look that way.<\/p>\n

Either way, if people did not eat biblically unclean animals, the risk from various diseases, including COVID-19 would be reduced.<\/p>\n

But that is not a solution that we expect to see implemented before the return of Jesus and the establishment of the millennial portion<\/a> of the Kingdom of God<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n

All need to heed the word of God.<\/p>\n

Human beings should not eat biblically unclean animals.<\/p>\n

World Net Daily<\/em> (WND) posted the following:<\/p>\n

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Biblically unclean animals responsible for pandemics<\/h2>\n

April 14, 2020<\/p>\n

Nearly every influenza pandemic for the last 1,000 years would have been prevented if the Bible’s prohibition against “unclean” animals had been headed, argues Bible teacher David Rives. … “Do you find it even slightly curious that this pandemic \u2014 responsible for countless tens of thousands of deaths around the world \u2014 originated from what appears to be the consumption of BATS in China?” …<\/p>\n

“Was God simply placing oppressive rules upon His people so that he could punish them when they broke His commands?” he asked. “Or do we believe that everything commanded by the Lord is not only just, but for our own good as well?”<\/p>\n

Rivas noted that, genetically, some animals are remarkably adept at passing on deadly diseases to humans.<\/p>\n

Research into past pandemics shows the following animals, along with mosquitoes and fleas, have been responsible for pandemics:<\/p>\n