You didn't read it then
Besides, Covid19 is a type of Batflu, granted an allegedly weaponised form of Batflu, but Batflu nevertheless.
It was a discovery that had implications as whilst they were confident at the time that it couldn't directly be transferred to humans, they did think that it may be possible to enter the food chain. Eight years later, here we are.
You should learn to spell flu whilst you're at it...
Yes, I did and obviously unlike you recognised that COVID was not mentioned in the contemporary 2012 publication and as I have stated just the various flu strains identified as just being a "possible" threat to humans, just like all plagues and diseases could be a threat to humans and have proved to be later. You have wrongly linked that article to COVID without evidence.
You mentioning Latin American countries and linking it o the current COVID 19 is plainly wrong. It is the Chinese strain of "Bat Flu" that has mutated into COVID 19 and that is were it has originated from, no matter what was discovered in 2012, which like fleas spreading the Black Death on rats is now disputed as the complete, definitive, answer to that pandemic.
Many other scientific and medical factors come into play and far more able people than you and I, and certainly not journalists, will one day fully understand all of them. One things for sure, we, the human race, has, as I stated, historically suffered from these pandemics and no doubt will continue to until we learn to properly live in our organic World or destroy ourselves.
As for me misspelling flu, that is below the belt................if I faulted everyone on the OOF for grammatical and spelling errors when posting it would become very tedious.