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1. Otter as Intermediate Host Thread
The typical market in China has fruits & vegetables, beef, pork, lamb, whole plucked chickens with heads & beaks attached, live crabs & fish, spewing water out of churning tanks. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/25/world/asia/china-markets-coronavirus-sars.html
The typical market in China has fruits & vegetables, beef, pork, lamb, whole plucked chickens with heads & beaks attached, live crabs & fish, spewing water out of churning tanks. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/25/world/asia/china-markets-coronavirus-sars.html
2. Otters in China
"Some sell more unusual fare, including live snakes, turtles and cicadas, guinea pigs, bamboo rats, badgers, hedgehogs, palm civets, wolf cubs and OTTERS"
There are 3 types of Otter resident in China
(without Hukous)
Those living in Wuhan are "Lutra"
"Some sell more unusual fare, including live snakes, turtles and cicadas, guinea pigs, bamboo rats, badgers, hedgehogs, palm civets, wolf cubs and OTTERS"
There are 3 types of Otter resident in China
(without Hukous)
Those living in Wuhan are "Lutra"
3. Gerald Durrell
Funnily enough, EcoHealth Alliance was founded as the "Wildlife Preservation Trust" in 1971 by British naturalist & author, Gerald Durrell, who wrote the screenplay for the film "Tarka the Otter" based on the book by Henry Williamson
https://retrieverman.net/2011/09/07/tarka-the-otter/
Funnily enough, EcoHealth Alliance was founded as the "Wildlife Preservation Trust" in 1971 by British naturalist & author, Gerald Durrell, who wrote the screenplay for the film "Tarka the Otter" based on the book by Henry Williamson
https://retrieverman.net/2011/09/07/tarka-the-otter/
4. Animals sold at Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market reportedly included poultry, snakes, giant salamanders, crocodiles, rats, marmots, porcupines, hedgehogs, otters, civets, dogs, foxes, wolf pups, deer & camel meat https://www.ausvet.com.au/an-epidemiological-perspective/
5. The Eurasian otter (Lutra lutra), also known as the European otter, Eurasian river otter, common & Old world otter is a semiaquatic mammal native to Eurasia.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurasian_otter
Part of the Mustelidae Family
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mustelidae
which includes badgers, ferrets & minks
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurasian_otter
Part of the Mustelidae Family
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mustelidae
which includes badgers, ferrets & minks
6. Luckily for Otters, they have not yet been tested for effective transmission, replication & infection with SARS-COV-2. Neither have Badgers.
However, Ferrets have topped the list for SARS_COV-2
Also, human to mink transmission & vice versa has taken place on Mink Farms
However, Ferrets have topped the list for SARS_COV-2
Also, human to mink transmission & vice versa has taken place on Mink Farms
7. Desperate Otters!
Historically, otters were excessively hunted in China for their furs and as traditional medicine; annual harvest in tens of thousands animals were reported by government statistics until otters became protected by law in 1989.
https://www.kfbg.org/eng/news/otter.aspx
Historically, otters were excessively hunted in China for their furs and as traditional medicine; annual harvest in tens of thousands animals were reported by government statistics until otters became protected by law in 1989.
https://www.kfbg.org/eng/news/otter.aspx
8. More Bad News for Otters
The remaining otter populations, however, continue to plummet, as threats like wetland degradation, pollution and fish stock depletion worsen.
However, Otters have been seen in Wuhan, mainly in East Lake and the Yangtze River
The remaining otter populations, however, continue to plummet, as threats like wetland degradation, pollution and fish stock depletion worsen.
However, Otters have been seen in Wuhan, mainly in East Lake and the Yangtze River
9. "Numerous species of land mammals are found in the Yangtze valley, but most of these are not directly associated with the river. Three exceptions are the semi-aquatic Eurasian otter, water deer and Père David's deer"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yangtze
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yangtze
10. The Otter Horror of a Chinese Otter's Life
1. A REVIEW OF CHINAâS OTTERS AND THEIR CONSERVATION (Page 23)
2. OTTER AS AN UMBRELLA SPECIES IN CHINA (Page 40)
3. ILLEGAL TRADE IN OTTERS IN ASIA (Page 66)
https://www.otter.org/documents/journals/IOSF_Journal_Vol3_2017.pdf
1. A REVIEW OF CHINAâS OTTERS AND THEIR CONSERVATION (Page 23)
2. OTTER AS AN UMBRELLA SPECIES IN CHINA (Page 40)
3. ILLEGAL TRADE IN OTTERS IN ASIA (Page 66)
https://www.otter.org/documents/journals/IOSF_Journal_Vol3_2017.pdf
11. The Chinese Otter Holocaust
https://www.otter.org/documents/IOSF_Illegal_Trade_in_Otters_Report_2014.pdf
https://www.otter.org/documents/IOSF_Illegal_Trade_in_Otters_Report_2014.pdf
12. The Abstracted Otter
https://www.otterspecialistgroup.org/osg-newsite/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/IOC2019_Abstracts.pdf
https://www.otterspecialistgroup.org/osg-newsite/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/IOC2019_Abstracts.pdf
13. Otters in Wuhan? Oh Yes!
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/317774126_Past_and_present_the_status_and_distribution_of_otters_Carnivora_Lutrinae_in_China
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/317774126_Past_and_present_the_status_and_distribution_of_otters_Carnivora_Lutrinae_in_China
14. Otter Nightmare!
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/287209088_Illegal_Trade_in_Otters_in_Asia
Information about Otters in China (what's left of them)
https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Wildlife_of_China
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/287209088_Illegal_Trade_in_Otters_in_Asia
Information about Otters in China (what's left of them)
https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Wildlife_of_China
15. Otter Freedom!
16. Is the freedom of an otter less valuable than that of a human?
17. Are Otters Intermediate Hosts for SARS-COV-2?
If I was an otter I would be, because I would hate humans ;)
If I was an otter I would be, because I would hate humans ;)
18. The Otter Craze in Asia
19. The otter seemed 'cute'
â until it leaped on her kayak and lunged at her face
https://www.chicagotribune.com/nation-world/ct-otter-attacks-kayaker-20180308-story.html
"An unprovoked attack is very un-otter-like, unless there's a cause you can't see"
â until it leaped on her kayak and lunged at her face
https://www.chicagotribune.com/nation-world/ct-otter-attacks-kayaker-20180308-story.html
"An unprovoked attack is very un-otter-like, unless there's a cause you can't see"
20. They were sold in the wild animal stalls on the 7th and 8th alleys in the western section of the South China Wuhan Seafood Market.
Given the experimental results with ferrets, why have otters & badgers not been tested for transmission, replication & infection with SARS-COV-2?
Given the experimental results with ferrets, why have otters & badgers not been tested for transmission, replication & infection with SARS-COV-2?
21. The Otter End of this Thread!
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