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(Some Bat-Brain)   The secret weapon in fighting the next pandemic? Bats   (montanafreepress.org) divider line
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336 clicks; posted to STEM » on 08 Feb 2023 at 5:05 PM (6 weeks ago)   |   Favorite    |   share:  Share on Twitter share via Email Share on Facebook



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koder [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-02-08 4:15:22 PM  
More than four dozen Jamaican fruit bats destined for a lab in Bozeman are set to become part of an experiment with an ambitious goal: predicting the next global pandemic

Also causing the next pandemic.  But they are super-cute so I'm okay with it.
 
Tell Me How My Blog Tastes [TotalFark]
2023-02-08 5:01:16 PM  
Either that or causing the next pandemic. Remarkable little buggers.
 
Tom Marvolo Bombadil
2023-02-08 5:13:58 PM  
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dryknife
2023-02-08 5:21:24 PM  
"Nah; needs garlic!"

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some_beer_drinker
2023-02-08 5:24:57 PM  
isn't that how we got in this mess?

/sure, i'll have some bat soup
 
leeksfromchichis [TotalFark]
2023-02-08 5:37:21 PM  
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Natural Immunity!
 
oldfool
2023-02-08 5:50:49 PM  
The last one to die, please turn off the lights.
 
mongbiohazard
2023-02-08 6:02:12 PM  
Not much point in predicting the next pandemic if we're not willing to do anything about them anymore... other than to just watch poor people die a little faster than usual, of course.

American "conservatives" poisoned the well pretty thoroughly this time. We barely even tried to pretend to address this one, I doubt there'll be much stomach from anyone in power to do much of anything at all next time.
 
Darth Funjamin
2023-02-08 6:02:33 PM  
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Bith Set Me Up
2023-02-08 6:02:36 PM  
More than four dozen Jamaican fruit bats destined for a lab in Bozeman are set to become part of an experiment with an ambitious goal: predicting the next global pandemic.

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Mad_Radhu
2023-02-08 6:25:51 PM  
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centrifugal bumblepuppy
2023-02-08 7:33:43 PM  
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mongbiohazard
2023-02-08 7:36:23 PM  

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lol, OK fine, I'll try watching that show. That just got me.
 
Olympic Trolling Judge
2023-02-08 7:44:55 PM  
To bats! The cause of and solution to all of life's problems.
 
Quantumbunny
2023-02-08 8:24:55 PM  
Weren't genetically manipulated bats that escaped from a US lab to a wet market in Wuhan the cause of the last one?

Let's double down on experimental bats.

\if your irony meter isn't pegging out, it should be
 
felching pen [TotalFark]
2023-02-08 8:49:57 PM  
Using these to whack a virus?
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leeksfromchichis [TotalFark]
2023-02-08 9:03:23 PM  

mongbiohazard: Not much point in predicting the next pandemic if we're not willing to do anything about them anymore... other than to just watch poor people die a little faster than usual, of course.

American "conservatives" poisoned the well pretty thoroughly this time. We barely even tried to pretend to address this one, I doubt there'll be much stomach from anyone in power to do much of anything at all next time.


If TFG hadn't pulled funding for the then ongoing pandemic watch project in China the year before, we might have had scientists in China helping identify and contain covid before it spread globally. Coronaviruses have been on the radar as potential pandemics for a long ass time.

That's part of how Sars and Mers were shut down so fast.  Scientists were watching.
 
Markoff_Cheney [recently expired TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-02-08 9:59:36 PM  
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