Today’s post is a Link to a fascinating and beautifully written article, no don’t disappear there’s photos as well! I’m hoping this share from ‘The Daily Telegraph’ website will play in overseas territories, incidentally The Telegraph is a quality UK newspaper……. if a touch Right Wing lol.
Photos by Simon Townsley.
Had enough of fake news and scare stories? I’ve a factual article which may interest you 🙂 .
A true tale following a group scientists on a trek into the rain forest’s of deepest darkest Africa, northern Sierra Leone to be more exact, sparsely populated and little visited, very few remote regions such as these exist on planet Earth. These band of brave men and women are searching for something called ‘Disease X’, an as yet undiscovered pathogen with the potential to spark a pandemic, and what are they searching for in Sierra Leone jungles? Bats! Warm blooded mammals also carriers of some of the deadliest viruses on the planet, many are unknown, several such a Ebola and Corona have killed thousands upon thousands of humans, and in the jungle may lurk the one disease that could………….., with thoughts of Corona virus on my mind (I’m quite worried now) I discovered this article and decided to (hopefully) share.
Immensely readable and of course highly topical, ‘Virus hunters’ makes plain that as man encroaches ever deeper into remote jungles, almost certainly another virus could jump species the very moment a bat sinks its bloody fangs into a human being…. the warning is there are places where human beings must never go.
Oh yes that link!…………… The Virus hunters
A. Shepherdson 2020 (and The Daily Telegraph)
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Fascinating article Andrew! These are true heroes. Thanks for sharing!
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Captivating and beautifully written, they are true heroes many and sadly many have lost their lost their lives.
Finger’s crossed Kim 🙂
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great article 🙂 the thing is it is difficult to get – who is woman who is man… in those white costumes 🙂
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Sadly very topical Victoria ☹️ yet a fascinating read, there’s a great many of people wearing masks in Oxford which is a little worrying.
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We are living in scary times. I’m more frightened of the mishandling of things here than the actual virus. Getting on a plane today, hopefully there will be empty seats.
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Instructions from our UK government changes by the hour, and I don’t think it’ll be long before schools and universities are closed, hopefully there are good people who know what they’re doing. I only wish Chinese food hygiene rules had been as strict as our own!
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I’m now in Chicago and announcements are coming in every time I check that things are canceled and schools are closing.
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Yesterday Boris Johnson held a press conference telling the British people to ‘prepare yourselves for the loss of loved ones’, what else can I say other than we’re living in uncertain times. Hopefully the panic will pass. 🙂
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