චිනේ අද ඊයේ ඉඳන් නෙවෙයි ඔය මස් කන්නේ අවුරුදු 2000ක් 3000ක් විතර කල්
දැන් ද උන්ට ඔවයින් ලෙඩ හැදෙන්නේ
මස් කෑවම radical වෙනවනම් සත්තු ඔක්කොම වගේ radical
සතෙක් දඩයම් කරගෙන මිනිස්සු ජීවත් වෙන කාලේ ඕව බැලුවද අහුවෙන සතා මරාගෙන කනවා
සංස්කෘතිය ආගම එක්ක තමයි කන බොන දේවල් වෙනස් වෙලා තියෙන්නේ
It's true that they have been eating anything that moves for quite sometime. But that doesn't give them immunity against everything.
Remember the "Swine Flu" - or the H1N1 Influenza subtype in 2009? It got passed on from pigs. Isn't it? But all over the world pigs were eaten for several generations. Actually the 2009 virus contained a combination of flu genes from bird, swine, and human flu types.
In 2003, we had the SARS - another corona virus. Usually these virii do not jump into humans from animals. But sometimes it does. This is called a "spill over" causing it to "jump species". This event is complex and needs close contact. Luckily only a few viruses are able to jump over and infect humans.
Also note that some very old diseases have animal origins - Notably, measles from cattle and whooping cough from dogs.
These live animal markets are really dirty places, the list shows many animals around, dirty environment, sewerage, blood etc can cause a spill over to happen.
(Killing an eating a wild animal is way different to the market situation)
The other possibility is a leak from their Wuhan Lab. They had a few leaks of SARS from their other labs before. Only came out with the truth later. In fact , the Chinese admit that the first guy who got this new Corona virus never visited the markets. But the market became the distribution centre for the virus. The Chinese usually, never tell the truth.
