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Wildlife director for the African branch of the Humane Society International (HSI), Audrey Delsink, left Africans with a sour taste in their mouths after claiming that the deadly coronavirus may have started in South Africa, not China.
Chinese scientists suspected that the virus may have been transmitted to humans in a market in Wuhan where exotic animals were slaughtered, although conspiracy theories that the virus came from a top-security virology laboratory have also been incorporated into the mainstream by US government officials. USA
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said an investigation was underway into how the virus “went out into the world.”
READ MORE: Wuhan lab denies virus link
The exact origin and cause of the virus have not yet been determined, and may never be.
But according to Delsink, the US government. USA He may be chasing the wind as he believes the virus may have originated in South Africa.
She told Express UK: “People are so concerned that they are the host species and it is not inconceivable to consider that it was a South African pangolin that was in the mix there and was the intermediate host.
“The fact is, we have bats and pangolins here. Bats especially harbor a number of diseases, so in South Africa we have all of these species. “
Delsink also told the publication that the images of animals “stacked on top of each other” in wet markets in China reflect what happened on “some” farms in South Africa.
“The recently released images showed one in which 50 lions had been slaughtered: there was a mixture of feces, blood and all kinds of things there.
“It is not difficult to imagine how this could happen in our country, that is what worries me, that some people are naive enough to think that it could never happen here,” he said.
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Delsink’s claim has been widely criticized by Africans, who say the world is trying to use the continent as a scapegoat.
This came after Africans were reported to have been mugged in China and China in response to suggestions from the United States that it may have to pay billions in financial reparations for being the place where the virus emerged. The Chinese have said that if that kind of attitude were valid, then they could have sued the United States for being where the 2008 financial crisis began.
These were some of the reactions on social networks:
I’m not sure about you, but I don’t read this because the ecologist who says that the Coronavirus started in South Africa rather seems to me to say that it could have easily started in SA due to the animals involved, not that it did … https: //t.co/LWwyuzQHKv
– Joe Crann (@YesWeCrann) May 12, 2020
Someday Africa will defend itself. This revolution will be televised.
https://t.co/parLL1vqqj– 33 ???????? (@iambolorunfe) May 11, 2020
Um. I’m confused. So could it have been a pangolin, not a bat and we have pangolins, so the virus could have started here? “Back in coronavirus: the killer virus could have started in South Africa, not China?” @Quick.co.uk https://t.co/8UegzNjJ1L
– Gillian Rightford (@grightford) May 12, 2020
What nonsense is this now! ????????
Coronavirus U-Turn: The Killer Virus Could Have Started In South Africa, Not China https://t.co/chNMCQ6oFo– Godfrey Albertyn ???????? (@galbertyn) May 12, 2020
Than ….
There are so many things in this article to worry about … I don’t know where to start!
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Coronavirus U-Turn: The Killer Virus Could Have Started In South Africa, Not China https://t.co/Vp8yC1flYi– #Digirati (@YaviMadurai) May 12, 2020
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