{"id":120708,"date":"2021-03-19T22:24:00","date_gmt":"2021-03-20T05:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/03\/who-thinks-it-knows-where-covid-19-originated"},"modified":"2021-03-19T22:24:00","modified_gmt":"2021-03-20T05:24:00","slug":"who-thinks-it-knows-where-covid-19-originated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/03\/who-thinks-it-knows-where-covid-19-originated","title":{"rendered":"WHO thinks it knows where COVID-19 originated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sx16-r7z6ho?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/goatsandsoda\/2021\/03\/15\/977527808\/who-points-to-wildlife-farms-in-southwest-china-as-likely-source-of-pandemic target=_blank>report<\/a> said the wildlife farms were part of a project the Chinese government has been promoting for 20 years.<\/p>\n<p>Daszak said: \u201cThey take exotic animals, like civets, porcupines, pangolins, raccoon dogs and bamboo rats, and they breed them in captivity,\u201d <a href=https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/goatsandsoda\/2021\/03\/15\/977527808\/who-points-to-wildlife-farms-in-southwest-china-as-likely-source-of-pandemic target=_blank>NPR<\/a> cited. He added that the project was a means to \u201calleviate rural populations out of poverty,\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In the next two weeks, the WHO is expected to reveal the team\u2019s investigative findings. However, Daszak provided <a href=https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/goatsandsoda\/2021\/03\/15\/977527808\/who-points-to-wildlife-farms-in-southwest-china-as-likely-source-of-pandemic target=_blank>NPR<\/a> with a \u201chighlight\u201d of what the team determined.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The report said the wildlife farms were part of a project the Chinese government has been promoting for 20 years. Daszak said: \u201cThey take exotic animals, like civets, porcupines, pangolins, raccoon dogs and bamboo rats, and they breed them in captivity,\u201d NPR cited. He added that the project was a means to \u201calleviate rural populations [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":614,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1506,1490],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-120708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-food","category-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/614"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120708\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}