The coronavirus would not have arisen in China in 2019, some scientists at the University of Oxford say to the newspaper The Telegraph. “Like many other viruses, it may have been dormant all over the world, waiting for ideal conditions to break out.”
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Last week, Spanish authorities announced that the coronavirus was already present in wastewater in March 2019. Nine months before it appeared in China. Similar discoveries were also made in Brazil and Italy.
“I think the virus had been here a long time,” epidemiologist Tom Jefferson told the British newspaper The Telegraph. “It was a dormant virus that had mainly been waiting for the right environmental factors to break out.”
That’s good news somewhere, because viruses that pop up when conditions are right can also disappear. “Where did Sars go? It just disappeared. We must therefore begin to study the ecology of viruses. Under what circumstances do they flourish, arise and mutate? “
In addition, Jefferson also criticizes the World Health Organization, which claims that the virus is transmitted by droplets. “There are isolated outbreaks that don’t hold up under this theory. What’s more, the virus is present in large numbers in wastewater and people are not consistently washing their hands. ”
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