By Kevin E. Noonan — One of the hallmarks of the current coronavirus pandemic, caused by SARS-Cov-2, is its zoonotic origins. The virus is thought to have risen in bats and “jumped” to humans, and despite conspiracy theories of intentional human engineering (reminiscent of Soviet-backed propaganda in Africa in the 1980’s that HIV/AIDS was produced in a laboratory in the U.S. as a way to reduce the African population) such transfer of disease-causing microorganisms from animals to humans is not so rare. Influenza, for example, is a virus that infects humans, fowl (chickens and ducks) and pigs, and due to…
