Given China's dishonesty about COVID-19, it doesn't seem crazy to wonder if COVID-19 is related to China's epidemic of African Swine Fever that has killed 200 million pigs. Uninformed people often talk about only one form of ASFV, the acute form. If COVID-19 is coming from China's ASFV-infected pigs, it would be in the chronic form. Here is a brief description of the chronic form:
Chronic disease symptoms include loss of weight, intermittent fever, respiratory signs, chronic skin ulcers and arthritis. Different types of pig may have varying susceptibility to ASF virus infection. African wild suids may be infected without showing clinical signs allowing them to act as reservoirs.
If pigs in China or he USA are ever determined to be positive for SARS-CoV-2, the next question should be, is African Swine Fever a coinfection? Is SARS-CoV-2 an opportunist the way that coronaviruses are opportunists in AIDS. (African Swine Fever is considered to be the AIDS of pigs.)
Detection of Novel Sequences Related to African Swine Fever Virus in Human Serum and Sewage in the USA
"Although ASFV is not known to infect humans even where the virus is endemic, identification of ASFV-like sequences in serum from multiple human patients suggests that human infection with African Swine Fever may occur."
"Although ASFV is not known to infect humans even where the virus is endemic, identification of ASFV-like sequences in serum from multiple human patients suggests that human infection with African Swine Fever may occur."
