[redis_mlc]

It's been reported for decades that small-time livestock farmers in rural China live too closely to their animals, namely pigs, which are genetically similar to humans.

So that's the source of annual flu.

So search on that as a start.

[scottlegrand2]

Completely different viruses, but right before the coronavirus outbreak, there was a plague outbreak in Beijing and the CCP responded similarly ineptly to it. The article below is from November 2019.

https://foreignpolicy.com/2019/11/16/china-bubonic-plague-ou...