Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for February 13, 2020

50 years old they should have let him go .

I just hope none of those 28 Tibetan glacier viruses were the coronavirus.

1992 and 2015 fits the timeframe when the first case of coronavirus appeared.

There are an estimated four million virus species. Only a relative few are able to infect humans. And an even smaller group are dangerous to human life. So the statistical likelihood of any group of newly discovered viruses being annoying to humans is miniscule. And the odds that one might kill you is vanishingly small, more or less equivalent to zero.

Now if one new virus is discovered in any human population, it is more likely to be infectious to all humans, but the danger to any individual is insignificant .

Can of worms time: Flu viruses kill millions of Americans every year. Our vaccines are not perfect, but if the shot only protects one in a dozen who get inoculated, thousands, even hundreds of thousands could be saved.

Hold off on fear of new novel viruses and take common sense precautions against the ones we know.

I wonder where Mr. Boyll was when he caught that grouper? Last time I went fishing with my late brother-in-law in 2003 any grouper over 30 pounds had to be released.

Any venom from any of the pit vipers(Rattlesnakes,copperheads, and cottonmouths are the pit vipers in the USA) will break down flesh; their venom is hemolytic. The venom is believed to be as much about helping predigest the bitten animal as well as kill it. The other type of snake venom is a neurotoxin; as in cobras, kraits. The coral snake is the only neurotoxic snake in the USA.

28 never-before-seen virus…. Including the coronavirus!

Can you get the coronavirus from drinking Corona?

Not believing nothin til I hear it from jasonsnakelover hisself..

Another good reason for China to leave Tibet and Tibetans alone.

Kill a 50 year old fish? Ever hear of “catch and release”?

That fish had a long life!

The logic of your post stands.

I assume the grouper was catch and release. What a shame to destroy a magnificent creature like that.

What kind of line and bait did Jason use? How the heck did he real in a fish that weighed that much?

Good Grief. Now there’ll be people getting bit just to melt off a few pounds…

that grouper should have been released

Ooh, fun viruses a few thousand years old… (15,000 years seems a bit of a stretch, though0

Reminds me of one the episodes of the X-Files!