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Are victims of Covid-19 at a Dutch pork processing plant getting it from infected pigs?

"The number of people diagnosed with the coronavirus at a Dutch pork processing plant near the German border has jumped to 147 since it was closed last week and workers asked to go into quarantine."

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-netherlands-meatpa-idUSKBN2310VT


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Scientists in Beijing are conducting experiments to see if pigs are the intermediate vector of the Covid-19 virus (SARS-CoV-2)


"Growing the virus in animal cells is one way to test whether the pathogen has adapted to a new host. Shi Yi, a microbiologist at the CAS Institute of Microbiology in Beijing, plans to introduce an inactivated version of RATG13, in various animals, such as bats, cats monkeys and pigs, and see whether the virus develops a similar pattern of mutations to SARS-CoV-2 over time. If similarities emerge, that could reveal which animals the virus adapted to before it jumped to people. "

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https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-01449-8
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Does China's biggest secret about COVID-19 involve pigs?



Long Before Covid-19, What was Happening All Over China?


Long before Covid-19 there was a disease all over China that destroyed the lungs.


Long before Covid-19 there was a disease all over China that caused fevers.


Long before Covid-19 there was a disease all over China that caused multisystemic inflammation.


Long before Covid-19 there was a disease all over China that caused a fatal cytokine storm.


Long before Covid-19 there was a disease all over China that caused vasculitis.


Long before Covid-19 there was a disease all over China that damages the heart.


Long before Covid-19 there was a disease all over China that damages the kidneys.


Long before Covid-19 there was a disease all over China that damages the liver.


Long before Covid-19 there was a disease all over China that affects the spleen.


Long before Covid-19 there was a disease all over China that affects the tonsils.


Long before Covid-19 there was a disease all over China that affects the lymph nodes.


Long before Covid-19 there was a disease all over China that caused hypoxia.


Long before Covid-19 there was a disease all over China that affected macrophages.


Long before Covid-19 there was a disease all over China that caused immune suppression.


Long before Covid-19 there was a disease all over China that resulted in multiple secondary infections.


Long before Covid-19 there was a disease all over China that affected the natural killer cells.


Long before Covid-19 there was a disease all over China that affected the dendritic cells.


Long before Covid-19 there was a disease all over China that affected the epithelial cells.


Long before Covid-19 there was a disease all over China that affected the CD4 cells.


Long before Covid-19 there was a disease all over China that caused rashes.


Long before Covid-19 there was a disease all over China that caused petechiae.


Long before Covid-19 there was a disease all over China that caused an elevation of IL-6, IL-10, TNF and IP-10.


Long before Covid-19 there was a disease all over China that caused thrombosis.


Long before Covid-19, that disease, which caused the loss of half of China’s four hundred million pigs, was African Swine Fever, the multisystemic inflammatory disease that strikes fear in the heart of every agricultural researcher and farmer all over the world. If SARS-CoV-2 had never been identified as the cause of Covid-19, African Swine Fever would have been the painfully obvious leading suspect. Is it still possible that African Swine Fever is a co-infection or cofactor in Covid-19? Why have scientists not looked for known and novel strains of African Swine Fever in Covid-19 patients? And given that millions of pigs throughout China had African Swine Fever with all the immunological destruction it causes, why hasn’t China considered the possibility that SARS-Cov-2 is just one of the many coinfections of immunologically-challenged pigs with African Swine Fever in Wuhan, Hubei, and the rest of China?


Anyone who says that people cannot become infected with African Swine Fever has only a partial knowledge of the science. They are not aware of all the public health warnings about the evolving nature of zoonotic diseases. In 2009, scientists discovered novel sequences related to African Swine Fever in human serum and sewage. In their abstract they concluded, “The family Asfarviridae contains only a single virus species, African swine fever virus (ASFV). ASFV is a viral agent with significant economic impact due to its devastating effects on populations of domesticated pigs during outbreaks but has not been reported to infect humans. We report here the discovery of novel viral sequences in human serum and sewage which are clearly related to the asfarvirus family but highly divergent from ASFV. Detection of these sequences suggests that greater genetic diversity may exist among asfarviruses than previously thought and raises the possibility that human infection by asfarviruses may occur.” (Source)


Two recent questionable experiments involving Covid-19 and pigs really constitute “beating around the bush.” One experiment in Germany unsuccessfully tried to infect pigs with SARS-Cov-2 and another one in India projected that pigs could not be infected based on a computer model. Research that does not “beat around the bush” would simply test pigs for SARS-Cov-19. The first papers that came out about SARS-Cov-2 noted that pigs have ACE2 receptors, so it will not come as a surprise to at least some scientists if it turns out that pigs are intermediate vectors of SARS-Cov-2. (Source #1, Source #2) One study concluded, “Due to the large number of infected people  often with high virus loads, SARS-CoV-2 could potentially spill over in other species including pigs and this should be monitored closely.” (Source)


But the bigger issue with enormous public health consequences is the question of whether African Swine Fever virus is an unidentified cofactor or coinfection of SARS-Cov-2 in Covid-19. The more alarming question is whether SARS-Cov-2 is a secondary infection and the mysterious nature of the emerging epidemic is a mystery caused by a major paradigm mistake which is the result of blaming the wrong pathogen for our international medical crisis. Science goes down the wrong path all the time and courageously corrects itself. Could African Swine fever be the Black Swan of Covid-19? Are we due for a midcourse correction in our understanding of Covid-19?


If China will not test the pigs in Wuhan and Hubei for SARS-Cov-2, then perhaps scientists in Italy and the USA can step in. The area most affected by COVID-19 in northern Italy is densely populated by domestic pigs. And then there is the curious issue of the pork production facilities in the USA that are hotspots for COVID-19. Doesn’t prudence demand that pigs in those facilities be tested both for SARS-Cov-2 and novel strains of African Swine Fever?


Recent research has identified twenty-four respiratory coinfections in Covid-19 patients. Isn’t it time to make the search for coinfections and cofactors deeper and broader? Should Covid-19 patients be tested with something like the ViroChip for every known and possibly novel infection? Of course, it is possible that African Swine Fever has nothing to do with Covid-19. But in this evolving disaster, no stone should be left unturned. One thing is clear: Anyone who says that what happens pathologically in African Swine Fever and Covid-19 is not similar is just not paying attention.
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Article argues pigs are an obvious candidate for intermediate vector of SARS-CoV-2

From a March 30, 2020 article in Grain:

Another recently published study identifies the most likely intermediate animal hosts for SARS-CoV-2, based on their presence in Wuhan and their having a human-like ACE2 that enables the binding of SARS-CoV-2. These are the animals the study identified: civets, pigs, pangolins, cats, cows, buffalos, goats, sheep and pigeons8.

Many of the animals on this list are industrially farmed in China, even wild animals like civets and pangolins are intensively farmed for their use in Chinese medicines. Suspicions that wild animal farms may have been behind the Covid-19 outbreak have already led the Chinese government to shut down 20,000 wild animal farms across the country9.

But hardly any attention has been given to some other animals on this list, which more clearly meet the “high population density” criteria. Pigs would be one obvious candidate from this list, for several reasons.

For one, pigs and humans have very similar immune systems, making it easy for viruses to cross between the two species, as happened with the Nipah virus outbreak in Malaysia in 199810. Indeed, just three years before the Covid-19 outbreak began, tens of thousands of pigs in four factory farms in Qingyuan county in Guangdong, less than 100 km from the site where the SARS outbreak originated in 2003, died from an outbreak of a new, lethal coronavirus strain (SADS) that turned out to be 98 percent identical to a coronavirus found in horseshoe bats in a nearby cave11 . Luckily transmission to humans did not occur, but subsequent laboratory tests demonstrated that such transmission could have been possible12.

Hubei Province, where Wuhan is located, is one of the top five largest producers of pigs in China. Over the past decade, small pig farms in the province have been replaced by large factory farms and medium-sized contract operations, where hundreds or thousands of genetically-uniform pigs are confined in high density barns. These industrial farms are the ideal breeding grounds for the evolution of new pathogens13.

Hubei’s factory pig farms are still reeling from a massive outbreak of African swine fever that struck the province and other parts of China just over a year ago, wiping out up to half of the national herd14. In these conditions, it is entirely possible that an outbreak of a new coronavirus among pigs in the province could go unnoticed.

Source:
https://www.grain.org/en/article/6437-new-research-suggests-industrial-livestock-not-wet-markets-might-be-origin-of-covid-19#sdfootnote14sym


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Will countries asking what happened in China focus on the relationship of African Swine Fever and COVID-19?


China has been trying to avoid fallout from coronavirus. Now 100 countries are pushing for an investigation
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/china-has-been-trying-to-avoid-fallout-from-coronavirus-now-100-countries-are-pushing-for-an-investigation/ar-BB14e9pE?ocid=spartanntp




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Shouldn't Germany be testing its pigs for COVID-19? (And African Swine Fever?)



Germany closes several slaughterhouses due to COVID-19
https://www.pig333.com/latest_swine_news/germany-closes-several-slaughterhouses-due-to-covid-19_16154/
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Zinc-hydroxychloroquine found effective in some COVID-19 patients: study


The antimalarial drug hydroxychloroquine has shown mixed results against the coronavirus in early studies, but a new paper out of New York suggests combining it with the dietary supplement zinc sulfate could create a more effective treatment. 


https://news.yahoo.com/zinc-hydroxychloroquine-found-effective-covid-19-patients-study-075932458.
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Fake Science? New research fails to test pigs for COVID-19, but uses computer modelling to predict it can't.

Why won't scientists test pigs in Wuhan, Hubei, Lombardy, South Dakota, and Brazil for the COVID-19 virus?????

 Scientists in India analysed the angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (ACE2) – the receptor on cells through which the new coronavirus enters – of 48 animals, including mammals, reptiles and birds, and used computer modelling to predict the infectivity of each.

 https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/3083883/which-animals-might-coronavirus-attack-most-easily-study-rates


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Is the explosion of COVID-19 in Minas Gerais, Brazil connected to pig production? Are pigs infected there?



Minas Gerais is the fourth largest Brazilian state in swine production. This activity involves the intense animal movement producing a complex network. In this context animals can carry on infectious agents and transmit them among the population.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/262720036_Swine_industry_animal_network_in_Minas_Gerais_Brazil


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Author Naomi Wolf continues to raise the issue of the potential involvement of pigs in COVID-19



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It's time to look for a coinfection/cofactor in COVID-19



Given what is going on in China's pigs, the first coinfection to look for is African Swine Fever.

"Wait, no, that’s not right. This is actually week eight for me. I started getting symptoms right before New York shut down. I mix up my dates. My mind is all foggy. I’ve been a nurse for 30 years, and now I can’t even remember if my last Tylenol was five minutes or five hours ago. It feels like electricity is burning through my spine, and nobody can tell me why. It’s like I’m sucking air through a straw. When I stand up, my ears start ringing until dizziness forces me back down. Every symptom is a whole new mystery. This virus is unpredictable and so, so violent."
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It is very strange that the media never asks if pigs are infected with COVID-19



Pork Chops vs. People: Battling Coronavirus in an Iowa Meat Plant
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/10/business/economy/coronavirus-tyson-plant-iowa.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage
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Congress needs to look at the bats and pigs experiments that Fauci may have helped finance in the Wuhan Laboratory.




The Sun article:
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/11392677/wuhan-coronavirus-scientists-bat-virus-injection-pig-cannibal/

The Newsweek article:

https://www.newsweek.com/dr-fauci-backed-controversial-wuhan-lab-millions-us-dollars-risky-coronavirus-research-1500741
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"Coronaviruses are common among farm animals. If COVID-19 were to jump species again and be receptive to animals, a likely animal on the farm to catch it would be pigs, he said. That's because pigs have a similar protein to humans that the SARS virus, a coronavirus cousin to COVID-19, uses to infect humans. Studies show that it may work in pigs too."


Are animals vulnerable to COVID-19? 
by Alayna Demartini, The Ohio State University
https://phys.org/news/2020-03-animals-vulnerable-covid-.html
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AIDS was linked epidemiologically to African Swine Fever epidemic in a 1992 paper.



Macroepidemiology of the HIVs-AIDS (HAIDS) pandemic. Insufficiently considered zoological and geopolitical aspects.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1626879
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