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originally posted by: SpartanStoic
a reply to: EndtheMadnessNow
To be fair he was on a flight with many people to Vietnam.
62 new cases in Zhejiang province, China. (Source)
47 new cases in Jiangxi province, China. (Source)
69 new cases in Guangdong province, China. (Source)
43 new cases in Anhui province, China. (Source)
34 new cases in Jiangsu province, China. (Source)
19 new cases in Shandong province, China. (Source)
24 new cases in Sichuan province, China. (Source)
Chimeric ACE2 was constructed by combining the N-terminal region of bat ACE2 with the C-terminal portion of human ACE2 at the unique BamHI site
An HIV-1-luciferase pseudotype virus carrying the SARS-CoV BJ01 S protein, HIV/BJ01-S, was prepared as described previously [13]. HeLa cells were seeded onto 96-well plates for 18 h and then transfected with 0.2 μg recombinant plasmid containing bat or human ACE2 using 0.5 μL Lipofectamine 2000 (Invitrogen, USA) according to the manufacturer’s protocol.
But "there's one area though where the world isn't making much progress," Gates said, "and that's pandemic preparedness."
The likelihood that such a disease will appear continues to rise. New pathogens emerge all the time as the world population increases and humanity encroaches on wild environments. It's becoming easier and easier for individual people or small groups to create weaponized diseases that could spread like wildfire around the globe.
And the disease that next takes us by surprise is likely to be one we see for the first time at the start of an outbreak, like what happened recently with SARS and MERS viruses.
If you were to tell the world's governments that weapons that could kill 30 million people were under construction right now, there'd be a sense of urgency about preparing for the threat, Gates said.