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This whole disease and infection comes down to a fundamental breakdown of sanitary practices of a society. Things like 1) cutting up and selling wild animal meat with your bare hands, 2) not washing your hands, 3) eating uncooked meat from wild animals like frogs, cats, rats, mice, "bat soup", 4) having open air "squat toilets" like latrines where when someone shoots their diarrhea, it turns into a mist and everyone in the room gets infected... If these conditions were improved, these viral outbreaks either wouldn't happen or wouldn't happen as often as it does in China. All I know is if you try to get away with that kind of stuff in the U.S., you will have the health department, dept of agriculture, the cops would all show up and shut you down and/or get arrested for it.



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