1. David McRae David McRae Australia says:

    To my mind the article does not explain how the virus might have moved from a pangolin, or other animal, into human patient number 1. If you eat a cooked pangolin does the virus survive to infect the eater? Do you need to breathe air in close proximity to a breathing pangolin? Does a pangolin need to sneeze on you? Can the folk medicine made with pangolin scales, and ingested by a person then infect that person via the digestive tract? How? Or do we not have a clue?

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