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Old 05-26-2020, 04:30 PM   #1908
Tyrone Slothrop
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Re: Objectively intelligent.

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Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski View Post
So early on in the movie Contagion they've isolated the virus and the computer spits out a DNA analysis- it includes a bat bit, a pig bit and then human parts.

I take it that sort of thing is fictional, as we don't know for certain it is from a bat? I heard it could have been anteater or snake?
If I understand correctly, it's not that the virus has bat (or other) DNA, it's that they thought it was a virus that circulating among bats and then jumped to humans.
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