Spitballin here, but maybe it’d even be called cow flu if it wasn’t so bad for some rich people’s business. That’s probably just the cynicism talking, though.
The fact seems to be that many of these flu’s are interspecies and the origin seems largely irrelevant. It’s my understanding that covid-19 originated in pangolins, but “pangolin flu” didn’t seem to stick, did it?
I’d be happy if someone with actual epidemiological knowledge could chime in here.
Spitballin here, but maybe it’d even be called cow flu if it wasn’t so bad for some rich people’s business. That’s probably just the cynicism talking, though.
The fact seems to be that many of these flu’s are interspecies and the origin seems largely irrelevant. It’s my understanding that covid-19 originated in pangolins, but “pangolin flu” didn’t seem to stick, did it?
I’d be happy if someone with actual epidemiological knowledge could chime in here.
It’s because they’re infected with avian influenza and ‘cow flu’ doesn’t exist afaik.
The pangolin transmission is still just a theory based on the fact that you’d have to eat way too much bat to infect yourself based on that.
The only certainty is that it was once transmitted by bats.
Influenza is a type of virus, completely unrelated to coronavirus. And COVID-19 originated in bats, not pangolins.