LEETS GET READY TOOOO RUMBLEEEE! CHOLERA OUTBREAK IN WUHAN.
How far, might one wonder, where the campus of Wuhan University is to the Wuhan Inistitute of Virology?
The answer? About 2km (1.2 miles).
Edit: Slight clarification on what the O139 meant.
slight PL:
This is normal. Sorry Sinaboos, but urban Chinese are the dirtest fucking people on earth.
I worked for a lab that, as part of a convoluted quid-pro-quo, employeed a bunch of rotating Chinese fresh-minted PhDs. So these are advanced level students. They had also gone through a "don't embarrass your country or your ancestors in front of the round-eyes" class to polish off the worst behaviors.
What ended up happening was there was requirement that at least one non-chinese person had to be in the lab if any of the Post-Docs were in there. The reason for this was not one believed in using PPE unless forced to do so. One of the lab managers came in to find a bunch of these students in the lab at night - no googles, no gloves, eating imported non-FDA controlled snacks over 7-figure precision equipment, open food containers everywhere, bunsen burner being used to eat some sort of stew that "smelled like the sweaty socks of a dead fish at low tide". Lab Manager lost their fucking mind because the lab had be scrubbed and their machines cleaned and recalibrated.
This is because the chinese believe PPE isn't something you wear to protect yourself, its something you wear to protect others when you're sick. To wear PPE was to say that you were sick and carrying some horrible disease.
The Chinese students also their own cliques and each clique had potluck lunch every day. Chop sticks spearing things out of sauce soups, shoveling rice into their mouths and then more spearing. The result was when one member of the clique got sick, they all got sick, because to skip potluck was inexcusable, so you'd have some guy dripping mucus eating from the same pots as the others... but its ok, he's wearing a surgical mask to keep it from spreading. (this was pre-COVID) Some of the more popular/outgoing ones ate with multiple groups on different days, so if any of those groups got sick, everyone got sick over like a month.
There were weekly reminders sent out that toilet seats were not for standing on. They tried to dial this down to monthly but the non-chinese women complained so much it had to go back to weekly.
We also had a ton of issues with environmental controls on one side of the building. Only the chinese were reporting them, reporting things being too hot, too cold, bad lighting, too much lighting, etc etc. and they needed to have their workstation moved to the other side of the building. They thought it might someone harrassing the chinese, or some weird Chinese cliquery, so they sent the Post Doc's Minder to figure out what the fuck was going on. After a fair bit of cajoling, arm twisting and essentially threatening to make the bad side of the building the Post-Doc dumping ground for all of them until the issue was fixed, one of them fessed up the actual issue. The problem was that as we were on the 10th floor, there was a small cemetery that was about two blocks over and could be partly seen, so these trained scientists were afraid of the cemetery ghosts coming across the street and haunting them.
Again, these were some of their brightest minds having gotten a semester of how not to nail every single Chinese stereotype all at once.
So when I heard Chinese bio lab was origin for Covid, I knew that was right and knew exactly how it spread.
So cholera spreading like wild fire should suprise no one.