Share this page!

Enter URL or ID to Unroll

You can paste full URL like: https://x.com/threadreaderapp/status/1644127596119195649
or just the ID like: 1644127596119195649

How to get URL link on X (Twitter) App

  1. On the Twitter thread, click on or icon on the bottom
  2. Click again on or Share Via icon
  3. Click on Copy Link to Tweet
  4. Paste it above and click "Unroll Thread"!
  5. More info at Twitter Help
Jon Ploug Profile picture
Jon Ploug
@JonPloug
Historian. Studying historical epidemics & pathology collections at Roskilde University and PandemiX (Center of Excellence).
Aug 4 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
Review of @PhilippMarkolin new book 🧵
As a Scandinavian, my instinct is for civil, nuanced discussion. I’ve had many on the lab leak theory. So I was initially wary of @PhilippMarkolin's #LabLeakFever, fearing it might be too aggressive for my taste.
lab-leak-fever.com But, the book powerfully argues that especially the American information landscape is a different beast. It's a world of "Republican-led witch hunts" that treat scientists "like criminals for the spectacle.”

Civil discussion can't always compete.
2/6
Jun 22, 2023 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
I browsed CNKI for articles about pangolins (I remembered that they are supposed to close down to access people outside CN).

"SARS-CoV-2-related Pangolin Virus Infection Route and Genomic Stability Studies"

Where they tested GX＿P2V on hamsters.

cnki.net/KCMS/detail/de… This is interesting:
"Adaptive variation of GX＿P2V in golden hamster could occur rapidly.A total of eight mutations could be detected after two passages.These mutations became dominant mutations in the third generation and remained until the ninth in vivo passages ..
Feb 22, 2023 • 13 tweets • 6 min read
A 🧵about pangolins in Wuhan
1. Pangolins were seen in Wuhan before the outbreak.
2. An article mentioned that pangolins were sold in or near the Baishazhou district.
3. An account by a resident in Wuhan relates a story of a pangolin in the HSM. 1. In this article from 2018, the journalist describes a pangolin found on the street (5 km from the HSM) with "straw ropes" around its feet. It appears to have been a smuggled pangolin that either escaped or fell out of a truck.

web.archive.org/web/2023022120…
Feb 20, 2023 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
Hvorfor fylder NATO narrativet så meget i DRs forklaring af Ruslands bevæggrunde for at invadere Ukraine, når det ikke gør det i udenlandske medier @DRkoncern @splidsboel & @clausmat1?

dr.dk/stories/128851… Image Her TheGuardian:
theguardian.com/world/2022/mar… Image
Apr 21, 2022 • 22 tweets • 6 min read
Tråd om misforståelser ang. SARS-CoV-2
@mikebarnkob gjorde mig opmærksom på denne artikel af @Prof_HJ_Kolmos, hvori han forklarer hvorfor, at han i bogen "Hygiejne for klinikere" har skrevet at SARS-CoV-2, muligvis er luftbåren. 1/
ugeskriftet.dk/debat/hvordan-… Bogen var blevet anmeldt i Ugeskriftet.dk af Jenny Dahl Knudsen (@dahl_knudsen). 2/
ugeskriftet.dk/nyhed/hygiejne…
Apr 20, 2022 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
En nørdet (men vigtig) 🧵 om "kernedråber" og begrebet "luftbåren"

Kernedråber blev oprindelig udviklet til at beskrive tuberkulose men er i mange lande blevet synonym med “luftbåren”. 1/20 Image Så, luftbåren=dråbekerner. Hvordan afgør man så, om et givent patogen smitter via dråbekerner? Ja,det er der ingen anvisning til, og det skyldtes, at dråbekerner som begreb blev udviklet til at beskrive tuberkulose. 2/
Dec 12, 2021 • 14 tweets • 5 min read
On Zoos/animal parks and the origin of Omicron.

According to @K_G_Andersen 1 of the 2 most likely hypotheses on the origin of Omicron is "reverse zoonosis, followed by a new zoonosis (human>animal>human)"

1/13 🧵

Where to look then for a place of origin?

It seems that wildlife in general don't get infected easily. When Danish mink farms experienced large outbreaks of covid
- “wildlife sampled in the vicinity of the infected farms did not test positive"
2/13

curis.ku.dk/portal/files/2…