Was half way kidding... I’ve eaten plenty stuff off the farm/ wild.. just saying if you don’t know what you doing. Don’t eat it.
To follow up on what Robbie and B-bob were saying yes that sounds like memory T-Cells. While those might allow the body to remember and confer immunity on those affected I'm not sure those can be transferred so plasma treatment might not work then. Also as of now we don't know how COVID-19 works with memory T-Cells as much of the literature cited here pertains to the original SARS. We also don't know what level of infection might lead to the proper immune response including memory T-Cells. One thing that seems consistent is that immune response in terms of antibodies is directly related to viral load exposure. It's possible that to develop a significant immune response would require exposure to enough virus that in many could risk serious illness. I'll say it again and again.. This is a novel virus which by definition means we have no long term knowledge about it.
Spain to cull nearly 100,000 mink in coronavirus outbreak Spain has ordered the culling of nearly 100,000 mink on a farm after confirming many were carrying coronavirus, a regional minister said on Thursday. Joaquin Olona, agriculture minister for the north-eastern Aragon region, said the cull would involve the slaughter of 92,700 mink which are prized for their pelt, AFP reports. Officials suspect the virus first reached the farm through a worker who passed it on to the animals. But Olona said it was not completely clear if “transmission was possible from animals to humans and vice versa”. In the Netherlands tens of thousands of mink have been slaughtered since the start of the pandemic after 20 farms were found to be infected, the Dutch authorities said earlier this month. Damn..is a mink like creature the intermediatery host of this virus? Do Chinese eat minks or some cousin of that?
People eat a lot of stuff in the PRC but I don’t know about mink. Mink are raised for fur there. Also people eat Civets which might be related to mink.
