Units of MeasurementWhat sparked the #COVID #Pandenic? Mounting evidence points to #raccoondogs https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00426-3
Camellia Tea CeremonyA few more tanuki putting their scrotums to good use.
But why the large scrotum?
Well, it's thought that the idea emerged in Kamakura times. Goldsmiths would use the stretchy skin of Tanuki testicles when hammering gold nuggets into gold leaf.
'Kintama' (金玉 'golden balls') is used as slang for testicles even today.
#folklore #tanuki #ukiyoe #狸 #浮世絵 #Japan #raccoondogs
#Japan #金玉
Matt WillemsenGenetic data links SARS-CoV-2 to raccoon dogs in China market, scientists say - "The big issue right now is that this data exists and that it is not readily available to the international community. This is first and foremost absolutely critical, not to mention that it should have been made available years earlier," Maria Van Kerkhove, the WHO's technical lead on COVID-19, said Friday. https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/03/genetic-data-links-sars-cov-2-to-raccoon-dogs-in-china-market-scientists-say/ #COVIDー19 #RaccoonDogs #tanuki
J.H.Noyes
Norobiik @"China has pushed a dubious hypothesis that the virus originated outside its borders entirely, suggesting at one point that it was carried into the Huanan market via imported frozen foods. It has strongly pushed back on suggestions of a possible lab leak and had previously denied the existence of any wild animals in Huanan that could have acted as intermediate hosts."
#GeneticData links #SARSCoV2 to #RaccoonDogs in #China market, scientists say | #Covid19 |Ars Technica
https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/03/genetic-data-links-sars-cov-2-to-raccoon-dogs-in-china-market-scientists-say/
Denis - The COVID info guy -New data links COVID’s origins to raccoon dogs at Wuhan market
#COVID19 #raccoondogs #Wuhanmarket
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/mar/17/covid-19-origins-raccoon-dogs-wuhan-market-data
Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻💻🧬The Strongest Evidence Yet That an Animal Started the #Pandemic
A new analysis of #genetic samples from #China appears to link the #pandemic’s origin to #raccoondogs, genetic evidence from #Wuhan, showing that #COVID had infected creatures for sale there. https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2023/03/covid-origins-research-raccoon-dogs-wuhan-market-lab-leak/673390/
A new analysis of #genetic samples from #China appears to link the #pandemic’s origin to #raccoondogs, genetic evidence from #Wuhan, showing that #COVID had infected creatures for sale there. https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2023/03/covid-origins-research-raccoon-dogs-wuhan-market-lab-leak/673390/
