21st century respiratory virus epidemics: SARS: Guangdong, China, 11/2002 MERS: Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, 6/2012 Covid-19: Wuhan, China, 12/2019 Spot the common factor: very low relative air humidity.https://twitter.com/wrathofgnon/status/1230382802857680898 …
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More and more of Guangdong homes have heaters.
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Brazil got a lot of wet markets too, and i dont see the same phenomenon happening, and btw most of the coastline (where most of the population lives) is quite humid because of a thing called "maresia"
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This phenomenon = emergence of new viruses, in fact, right now in Brasil we are facing a dengue epidemic too (high humidity and lotes of still water)
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