Eating insects is one of the most strange customs of some countries, such as China and some of the European countries, and this is their culture. As for us, these customs are not recognized in our culture.
What are insects?
The Insecta is one of the largest taxonomic classes of living organisms (accommodating probably more than one million species). Many entomopathogenic microorganisms are known, although mostly from arthropods of agricultural or human health importance
Studies of insect diseases have-from an applied perspective- been based on either the goal to control such diseases in insect production systems, or to use insect pathogens as biological control agents of insect pests
Studies to control diseases in insect production systems historically focused mostly on the two main insect species maintained in large quantities: the honeybee (Apis mellifera) and the silkworm (Bombyx mori), which have a long history of domestication
There are decades and even centuries of experience with diseases in these two insect species (Bassi, 1835, 1836; James and Li, 2012; Pasteur, 1870) and therefore these animals are models to understand insect diseases and recognise problems in production of additional insect species for food and feed
Imoportance of eating insects :
There is scientific research talking about the importance of insects in food. some places in China where famines are widespread have come to eat insects and some animals to be able to live, but now the kitchen of China is full of strange food. Also, China's food habits have caused the world over the ages many epidemics
China and the history of the epidemics :
China has been the origin of several major viral epidemics over recent decades, with the current outbreak of a new deadly coronavirus emerging in the central city of Wuhan
A recap of the main epidemics: The Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) emerged in Nov 2002 in the southern Guangdong province
Believed to be from bats, it was apparently transmitted to humans via civet cats sold for meat in wildlife markets
Also, a “coronavirus “, so-named because of its crown-like appearance when seen under an electron microscope, SARS was highly contagious and caused acute and sometimes fatal pneumonia
From early 2003 it caused major panic across Asia, mainly in China, Hong Kong and Singapore. The World Health Organization (WHO) on March 12 issued a global health alert
The SARS epidemic caused 774 deaths worldwide from more than 8,000 infections in around 30 countries. Eighty per cent of the victims were in China and Hong Kong
The A(H5N1) strain of bird flu claimed its first lives in Hong Kong in 1997, leaving six dead
It resurfaced in 2003 in Southeast Asia, killing 282 people from 468 infections in 15 countries, according to a WHO toll
But the virus was particularly dangerous for farmed fowl and almost all human cases were among people who had direct contact with infected birds
Infections between people were extremely limited, even though there were fears the virus would evolve into an easily transmissible form, so bird flu was not considered a human epidemic
A new influenza virus of the A type – among the three seasonal varieties – started spreading in Hong Kong from July 1968, going on to infect 500,000 people or 15 per cent of the population
It then moved into the rest of Asia, reaching the United States and Europe weeks later.
Considered the first pandemic of modern times, its spread was aided by the increase in international air travel
The epidemic spurred major international mobilisation coordinated by the WHO. From Nov 1968, effective vaccines were developed.
The pandemic is estimated to have killed one million people, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
The first cases of this variant of the flu, also a type A, were identified in Feb 1957 in China’s southwestern province of Guizhou. The virus spread throughout China and the rest of Asia and the world in the most serious pandemic since the Spanish flu of 1918
After that, Do we have the right to blame or accuse China of what is happening in the world??
what is your opinion??
Written by / Rehab Mohamed
references
d) https://www.researchgate.net/publication/273499752_Diseases_in_insects_produced_for_food_and_feed
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