The mass-slaughter-of-animals-for-food industry |
In this current series I have pointed out the undisputed reality that a relevant portion of the mistreatment of flora and fauna is done by "the mass-slaughter-of-animals-for-food industry" (On The Origin Of The Home Of COVID-19, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14).
For example:
"To meet this demand [commercialization / population growth], there are several approaches being in force like antibiotic / antimicrobial / hormonal growth promotors. But these methods also lead to major public health concerns ranging from residues to antimicrobial resistance in human population ... It is a well-known fact that microbiota plays a pivotal role in the gastrointestinal health in ruminant and nonruminant animals."(On The Origin Of The Home Of COVID-19). In other words, it is no secret that "the mass-slaughter-of-animals-for-food industry" is a source of "major public health concerns".
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"For generations, farmers have used antibiotics to improve production of their chicken, pig, and cattle operations. With use of certain antibiotics on the chopping block because of concerns about the rise of resistant organisms, some are turning from anti to pro—probiotics, that is.
Probiotics, live microorganisms that are a staple of the human wellness industry, have the potential to fulfill many of the roles that antibiotics play down on the farm. Research suggests probiotics can help chickens, pigs, and cows quickly put on weight, efficiently digest feed, and withstand the infectious organisms that tend to lurk wherever animals are kept in close quarters ... But farmers have several ways to raise healthy livestock without relying on antibiotics."
Nor is it a secret that "the mass-slaughter-of-animals-for-food industry" exports its products in a multi-billion dollar annual business:
"Tyson Foods, Inc. is an American multinational corporation based in Springdale, Arkansas, that operates in the food industry. The company is the world's second largest processor and marketer of chicken, beef, and pork after JBS S.A. and annually exports the largest percentage of beef out of the United States. Together with its subsidiaries, it operates major food brands, including Jimmy Dean, Hillshire Farm, Ball Park, Wright Brand, Aidells, and State Fair. Tyson Foods ranked No. 80 in the 2018 Fortune 500 list of the largest United States corporations by total revenue."(On The Origin Of The Home Of COVID-19 - 10). The post also points out that 78% of the food fed to mink on mink farms is offal, so when the talking point that "viruses or microbes can't be spread in food" comes your way don't fall for it.
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"'The U.S. food system is a complex network of farmers and the industries that link to them. Those links include makers of farm equipment and chemicals as well as firms that provide services to agribusinesses, such as providers of transportation and financial services. The system also includes the food marketing industries that link farms to consumers, and which include food and fiber processors, wholesalers, retailers, and food service establishments'.
The term food industries covers a series of industrial activities directed at the processing, conversion, preparation, preservation and packaging of foodstuffs. The food industry today has become highly diversified, with manufacturing ranging from small, traditional, family-run activities that are highly labor intensive, to large, capital-intensive and highly mechanized industrial processes. Many food industries depend almost entirely on local agriculture or fishing."
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"Rarely found on menus in the U.S., variety meat – also called offal or fancy meat – takes many forms: kidneys, livers, stomachs, tendons, aortas, cheek meat, oxtails and more. And because it's highly sought after in key export markets of Egypt, Japan, Peru and Mexico, variety meat [offal] is gold to the U.S. beef industry.
According to the U.S. Meat Export Federation, total U.S. beef exports in 2012 set a new record at $5.51 billion. Beef offal represented $703.1 million, or about 12% of that. It also accounted for 28.4% of the total volume of beef exports.
And, virtually 100% of the U.S. livestock herd is represented in variety meat exports [offal] – some part of every animal is sold to international customers.
'Demand for both large and small intestines would tank without the international market,' says Jerry Wiggs, export salesman for Greater Omaha Packing Company Inc. (OPC). 'We are selling large intestines to South Korea or Koreans who recently moved to the U.S.'
Wiggs says OPC just recently resumed selling small intestines to Mexico, where they had been banned since BSE was found in the U.S. in late 2003."
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"Edible offal products, which are made from an animal’s intestines, internal organs, and other parts, rarely end up on American plates. Does that mean it simply goes to waste?
Thanks in large part to international trade, the answer is no. Culinary traditions in countries around the world call for the use offal in a wide variety of dishes ... In many places, certain offal products are even considered a delicacy. By looking beyond America’s borders, meat processors have been able to uncover lucrative markets and reach new consumers hungry for American food products.
Consider the case of Mexico, a country that consistently ranks as one of the leading importers of U.S. offal products, also known as “variety meats”. One of the most popular products is tripe, an offal made from a cow’s stomach."
The US offal export business (which the mink farming business relies on for mink food) has caused major damage to countries it has been exporting to, because that commodity is an element of diet:
"The Netherlands is one of 24 countries where mink farming is still legal. In a historic move, the Dutch parliament has voted to permanently close the mink fur farms shut down by COVID-19.(On The Origin Of The Home Of COVID-19 - 12). Yes, diet is important, and yes microbes can be passed to those who consume food with microbes in it:
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The spread of COVID-19 among mink across multiple farms since April resulted in at least two workers catching the virus from the animals and triggered calls for the government to rapidly shut down the industry. “Waiting until 2024 for the mink ban to take effect would have been unjustifiable and irresponsible,” says Sandra Schoenmakers, director of Dutch anti-fur organizations Bont voor Dieren. The latest available figures show that nearly 600,000 mink across 13 farms had been killed by gassing with carbon monoxide on the orders of the Dutch government, but many more are likely to be killed in the coming weeks.
Factory farms and slaughterhouses across the world have become coronavirus hotbeds due to cramped and unsafe working conditions, endangering the lives of workers who have been given inadequate protection by the companies that employ them. While transmission between workers on the Dutch mink farms has not reached the levels seen on agricultural farms, it presents the first case in which humans passed the virus to the farmed animals who then transmitted it back to humans.
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The intensive breeding of animals on fur farms is an incredibly cruel practice that not only causes immense suffering to animals, but can also serve as a reservoir for coronaviruses".
"Editorial Summary(ibid). Exported food and food distributed in country by "the mass-slaughter-of-animals-for-food industry" has been a danger to public health for who knows how long.
Minor role for host genetics in shaping the microbiota
The composition of the human gut microbiome is determined by many factors. Eran Segal and colleagues performed an extensive statistical analysis of the largest metagenomics-sequenced human cohort so far to determine the contribution of host genotype to microbiome composition. Host genetics has only a minor influence on microbiome variability, which is more strongly associated with environmental factors such as diet. The authors propose a 'microbiome-association index' that describes the association of the microbiome with host phenotype. Combining this measurement with host genetic and environmental data improves the accuracy of predictions about several human metabolic traits, such as glucose and obesity traits."
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"A wealth of evidence suggests that this incredibly diverse microbial community is regulated by host genetic factors, and more importantly, environmental and dietary factors (4–6)"."
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"Human gut microbiome composition is shaped by multiple factors but the relative contribution of host genetics remains elusive. Here we examine genotype and microbiome data from 1,046 healthy individuals with several distinct ancestral origins who share a relatively common environment, and demonstrate that the gut microbiome is not significantly associated with genetic ancestry, and that host genetics have a minor role in determining microbiome composition. We show that, by contrast, there are significant similarities in the compositions of the microbiomes of genetically unrelated individuals who share a household, and that over 20% of the inter-person microbiome variability is associated with factors related to diet, drugs and anthropometric measurements. We further demonstrate that microbiome data significantly improve the prediction accuracy for many human traits, such as glucose and obesity measures, compared to models that use only host genetic and environmental data. These results suggest that microbiome alterations aimed at improving clinical outcomes may be carried out across diverse genetic backgrounds."
The two tables below are an updated/corrected list of countries that "the mass-slaughter-of-animals-for-food industry" may or may not export its products to:
About Columns in the HTML table below:
'Country' is a list of 92 nations that receive USA exports
'Abbr' is the abbreviation of the country's name used in .gov reports
'Gets exports?' indicates if the USDA indicates US exports go to that country
'Virus data?' indicates if SARS-CoV-2 genomes are in GenBank
'Phase 1' means SARS-CoV-2 records I found in GenBank on or before 23/Aug/2020
'Phase 2' means records I found in GenBank between 23/Aug/2020 and 2/22/2021
'Total' means: total reports I found in GenBank for that country
Country | Abbr | Gets exports? | Virus data? | Phase 1 | Phase 2 | Total |
Afghanistan | AFG | yes | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Aland | ALA | yes | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Albania | ALB | yes | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Algeria | DZA | yes | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
American Samoa | ASM | yes | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Andorra | AND | yes | yes | 2,648 | 0 | 2,648 |
Angola | AGO | yes | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Anguilla | AIA | yes | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Antarctica | ATA | yes | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Antigua and Barbuda | ATG | yes | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Argentina | ARG | yes | yes | 0 | 20 | 20 |
Armenia | ARM | yes | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Aruba | ABW | yes | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Australia | AUS | yes | yes | 1,115 | 9,354 | 10,469 |
Austria | AUT | yes | yes | 5 | 0 | 5 |
Azerbaijan | AZE | yes | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Bahamas | BHS | yes | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Bahrain | BHR | yes | yes | 8 | 115 | 123 |
Bangladesh | BGD | yes | yes | 122 | 208 | 330 |
Barbados | BRB | yes | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Belarus | BLR | yes | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Belgium | BEL | yes | yes | 22 | 1 | 23 |
Belize | BLZ | yes | yes | 0 | 4 | 4 |
Benin | BEN | yes | yes | 0 | 12 | 12 |
Bermuda | BMU | yes | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Bhutan | BTN | yes | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Bolivia | BOL | yes | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Saba | BQ | yes | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Bosnia and Herzegovina | BIH | yes | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Botswana | BWA | yes | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Bouvet | BVT | yes | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Brazil | BRA | yes | yes | 129 | 11 | 140 |
British Indian Ocean Territory | IOT | yes | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Brunei | BN | yes | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Bulgaria | BGR | yes | yes | 3 | 0 | 3 |
Burkina Faso | BFA | yes | yes | 3 | 0 | 3 |
Burundi | BDI | yes | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Verde | CPV | yes | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Cambodia | KHM | yes | yes | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Cameroon | CMR | yes | yes | 5 | 0 | 5 |
Canada | CAN | yes | yes | 22 | 3 | 25 |
Cayman | CYM | yes | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Central African Republic | CAF | yes | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Chad | TCD | yes | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Chile | CHL | yes | yes | 9 | 244 | 253 |
China | CHN | yes | yes | 4,187 | 12 | 4,199 |
Christmas | CXR | yes | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Cocos (Keeling) | CCK | yes | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Colombia | COL | yes | yes | 24 | 0 | 24 |
Comoros | COM | yes | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Congo | COD | yes | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Republic of the Congo | 178 | yes | yes | 1 | 3 | 4 |
Cook | COK | yes | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Costa Rica | CRI | yes | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Ivory Coast | CIV | yes | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Croatia | HRV | yes | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Cuba | CUB | yes | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Curaçao | CUW | yes | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Cyprus | CYP | yes | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Czech | CZE | yes | yes | 14 | 0 | 14 |
Denmark | DNK | yes | yes | 8 | 0 | 8 |
Djibouti | DJI | yes | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Dominica | DMA | yes | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Dominican | DOM | yes | yes | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Ecuador | ECU | yes | yes | 1 | 4 | 5 |
Egypt | EGY | yes | yes | 64 | 428 | 492 |
El Salvador | SLV | yes | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Guinea | GNQ | yes | yes | 1 | 0 | 1 |
Eritrea | ERI | yes | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Estonia | EST | yes | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Eswatini | SWZ | yes | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Ethiopia | ETH | yes | yes | 10 | 0 | 10 |
Falkland | FLK | yes | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Faroe | FRO | yes | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Fiji | FJI | yes | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Finland | FIN | yes | yes | 2 | 0 | 2 |
France | FRA | yes | yes | 273 | 4 | 277 |
French Guiana | GUF | yes | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
French Polynesia | PYF | yes | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
French Southern and Antarctic Lands | ATF | yes | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Gabon | GAB | yes | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Gambia | GMB | yes | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Georgia | GEO | yes | yes | 8 | 2 | 10 |
Germany | DEU | yes | yes | 36 | 14 | 50 |
Ghana | GHA | yes | yes | 16 | 26 | 42 |
Gibraltar | GIB | yes | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Greece | GRC | yes | yes | 101 | 0 | 101 |
Greenland | GRL | yes | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Grenada | GRD | yes | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Guadeloupe | GLP | yes | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Guam | GUM | yes | yes | 3 | 0 | 3 |
Guatemala | GTM | yes | yes | 0 | 10 | 10 |
Guernsey | GGY | yes | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Guinea | GIN | yes | yes | 1 | 0 | 1 |
Guinea-Bissau | GNB | yes | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Guyana | GUY | yes | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Haiti | HTI | yes | yes | 8 | 0 | 8 |
Heard Island and McDonald Islands | HMD | yes | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Holy See | VAT | yes | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Honduras | HND | yes | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Hong Kong | HKG | yes | yes | 131 | 80 | 211 |
Hungary | HUN | yes | yes | 4 | 0 | 4 |
Iceland | ISL | yes | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
India | IND | yes | yes | 279 | 258 | 537 |
Indonesia | IDN | yes | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Iran | IRN | yes | yes | 16 | 6 | 22 |
Iraq | IRQ | yes | yes | 0 | 29 | 29 |
Ireland | IRL | yes | yes | 1 | 0 | 1 |
Isle of Man | IMN | yes | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Israel | ISR | yes | yes | 11 | 8 | 19 |
Italy | ITA | yes | yes | 70 | 61 | 131 |
Jamaica | JAM | yes | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Japan | JPN | yes | yes | 282 | 1 | 283 |
Jersey | JEY | yes | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Jordan | JOR | yes | yes | 16 | 23 | 39 |
Kazakhstan | KAZ | yes | yes | 4 | 0 | 4 |
Kenya | KEN | yes | yes | 28 | 0 | 28 |
Kiribati | KIR | yes | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
North Korea | PRK | yes | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
South Korea | KOR | yes | yes | 562 | 13 | 575 |
Kuwait | KWT | yes | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Kyrgyzstan | KGZ | yes | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Laos | LAO | yes | yes | 1 | 0 | 1 |
Latvia | LVA | yes | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Lebanon | LBN | yes | yes | 0 | 4 | 4 |
Lesotho | LSO | yes | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Liberia | LBR | yes | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Libya | LBY | yes | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Liechtenstein | LIE | yes | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Lithuania | LTU | yes | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Luxembourg | LUX | yes | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Macao | MAC | yes | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Macedonia | MKD | yes | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Madagascar | MDG | yes | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Malawi | MWI | yes | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Malaysia | MYS | yes | yes | 26 | 2 | 28 |
Maldives | MDV | yes | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Mali | MLI | yes | yes | 0 | 2 | 2 |
Malta | MLT | yes | yes | 0 | 4 | 4 |
Marshall Islands | MHL | yes | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Martinique | MTQ | yes | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Mauritania | MRT | yes | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Mauritius | MUS | yes | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Mayotte | MYT | yes | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Mexico | MEX | yes | yes | 63 | 32 | 95 |
Micronesia | FSM | yes | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Moldova | MDA | yes | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Monaco | MCO | yes | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Mongolia | MNG | yes | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Montenegro | MNE | yes | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Montserrat | MSR | yes | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Morocco | MAR | yes | yes | 13 | 1 | 14 |
Mozambique | MOZ | yes | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Myanmar | MMR | yes | yes | 0 | 9 | 9 |
Namibia | NAM | yes | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Nauru | NRU | yes | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Nepal | NPL | yes | yes | 1 | 0 | 1 |
Netherlands | NLD | yes | yes | 103 | 1,529 | 1,632 |
New Caledonia | NCL | yes | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
New Zealand | NZL | yes | yes | 1 | 0 | 1 |
Nicaragua | NIC | yes | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Niger | NER | yes | yes | 16 | 0 | 16 |
Nigeria | NGA | yes | yes | 15 | 1 | 16 |
Niue | NIU | yes | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Norfolk Island | NFK | yes | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Northern Mariana Islands | MNP | yes | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Norway | NOR | yes | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Oman | OMN | yes | yes | 12 | 0 | 12 |
Pakistan | PAK | yes | yes | 3 | 37 | 40 |
Palau | PLW | yes | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Palestine | PS | yes | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Panama | PAN | yes | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Papua New Guinea | PNG | yes | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Paraguay | PRY | yes | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Peru | PER | yes | yes | 3 | 93 | 96 |
Philippines | PHL | yes | yes | 16 | 24 | 40 |
Pitcairn | TPC | yes | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Poland | POL | yes | yes | 28 | 112 | 140 |
Portugal | PRT | yes | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Puerto Rico | PRI | yes | yes | 13 | 1 | 14 |
Qatar | QAT | yes | yes | 7 | 0 | 7 |
Réunion | REU | yes | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Romania | ROU | yes | yes | 3 | 0 | 3 |
Russia | RUS | yes | yes | 2 | 20 | 22 |
Rwanda | RWA | yes | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Saint Barthélemy | BLM | yes | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Tristan da Cunha | SH | yes | yes | 4 | 0 | 4 |
Saint Kitts and Nevis | KNA | yes | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Saint Lucia | LCA | yes | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Saint Martin | MAF | yes | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Saint Pierre and Miquelon | SPM | yes | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | VCT | yes | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Samoa | WSM | yes | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
San Marino | SMR | yes | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
São Tomé and Príncipe | STP | yes | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Saudi Arabia | SAU | yes | yes | 501 | 28 | 529 |
Senegal | SEN | yes | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Serbia | SRB | yes | yes | 5 | 137 | 142 |
Seychelles | SYC | yes | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Sierra Leone | SLE | yes | yes | 0 | 10 | 10 |
Singapore | SGP | yes | yes | 27 | 0 | 27 |
Sint Maarten | SXM | yes | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Slovakia | SVK | yes | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Slovenia | SVN | yes | yes | 3 | 0 | 3 |
Solomon Islands | SLB | yes | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Somalia | SOM | yes | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
South Africa | ZAF | yes | yes | 4 | 0 | 4 |
South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands | SGS | yes | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
South Sudan | SSD | yes | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Spain | ESP | yes | yes | 31 | 20 | 51 |
Sri Lanka | LKA | yes | yes | 4 | 0 | 4 |
Sudan | SDN | yes | yes | 1 | 0 | 1 |
Suriname | SUR | yes | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Jan Mayen | SJM | yes | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Sweden | SWE | yes | yes | 48 | 0 | 48 |
Switzerland | CHE | yes | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Syria | SYR | yes | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Taiwan | TWN | yes | yes | 151 | 6 | 157 |
Tajikistan | TJK | yes | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Tanzania | TZ | yes | yes | 1 | 0 | 1 |
Thailand | THA | yes | yes | 132 | 0 | 132 |
East Timor | TLS | yes | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Togo | TGO | yes | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Tokelau | TKL | yes | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Tonga | TON | yes | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Trinidad and Tobago | TTO | yes | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Tunisia | TUN | yes | yes | 2 | 48 | 50 |
Turkey | TUR | yes | yes | 85 | 28 | 113 |
Turkmenistan | TKM | yes | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Turks and Caicos Islands | TCA | yes | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Tuvalu | TUV | yes | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Uganda | UGA | yes | yes | 3 | 0 | 3 |
Ukraine | UKR | yes | yes | 2 | 0 | 2 |
United Arab Emirates | ARE | yes | yes | 191 | 0 | 191 |
United Kingdom | UK | yes | yes | 27 | 0 | 27 |
United States Minor Outlying Islands | UMI | yes | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
United States Minor Outlying Islands | UMI | yes | no | 1,270 | 19,034 | 20,304 |
Uruguay | URY | yes | yes | 3 | 7 | 10 |
Uzbekistan | UZB | yes | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Vanuatu | VUT | yes | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Venezuela | VEN | yes | yes | 0 | 6 | 6 |
Vietnam | VNM | yes | yes | 10 | 0 | 10 |
British Virgin Islands | VGB | yes | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
United States Virgin Islands | VIR | yes | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Wallis and Futuna | WLF | yes | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Western Sahara | ESH | yes | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Yemen | YEM | yes | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Zambia | ZMB | yes | yes | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Zimbabwe | ZWE | yes | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
About Columns in the HTML table below:
'Country' is a list of 92 nations that receive USA exports
'Abbr' is the abbreviation of the country's name used in .gov reports
'Gets exports?' indicates if the USDA indicates US exports go to that country
'Virus data?' indicates if SARS-CoV-2 genomes are in GenBank
'Phase 1' means SARS-CoV-2 records I found in GenBank on or before 23/Aug/2020
'Phase 2' means records I found in GenBank between 23/Aug/2020 and 2/22/2021
'Total' means: total reports I found in GenBank for that country
Country | Abbr | Gets exports? | Virus data? | Phase 1 | Phase 2 | Total |
Afghanistan | AFG | no | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Aland | ALA | no | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Albania | ALB | no | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Algeria | DZA | no | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
American Samoa | ASM | no | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Andorra | AND | no | yes | 2,648 | 0 | 2,648 |
Angola | AGO | no | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Anguilla | AIA | no | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Antarctica | ATA | no | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Antigua and Barbuda | ATG | no | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Argentina | ARG | no | yes | 0 | 20 | 20 |
Armenia | ARM | no | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Aruba | ABW | no | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Australia | AUS | no | yes | 1,115 | 9,354 | 10,469 |
Austria | AUT | no | yes | 5 | 0 | 5 |
Azerbaijan | AZE | no | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Bahamas | BHS | no | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Bahrain | BHR | no | yes | 8 | 115 | 123 |
Bangladesh | BGD | no | yes | 122 | 208 | 330 |
Barbados | BRB | no | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Belarus | BLR | no | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Belgium | BEL | no | yes | 22 | 1 | 23 |
Belize | BLZ | no | yes | 0 | 4 | 4 |
Benin | BEN | no | yes | 0 | 12 | 12 |
Bermuda | BMU | no | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Bhutan | BTN | no | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Bolivia | BOL | no | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Saba | BQ | no | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Bosnia and Herzegovina | BIH | no | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Botswana | BWA | no | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Bouvet | BVT | no | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Brazil | BRA | no | yes | 129 | 11 | 140 |
British Indian Ocean Territory | IOT | no | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Brunei | BN | no | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Bulgaria | BGR | no | yes | 3 | 0 | 3 |
Burkina Faso | BFA | no | yes | 3 | 0 | 3 |
Burundi | BDI | no | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Verde | CPV | no | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Cambodia | KHM | no | yes | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Cameroon | CMR | no | yes | 5 | 0 | 5 |
Canada | CAN | no | yes | 22 | 3 | 25 |
Cayman | CYM | no | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Central African Republic | CAF | no | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Chad | TCD | no | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Chile | CHL | no | yes | 9 | 244 | 253 |
China | CHN | no | yes | 4,187 | 12 | 4,199 |
Christmas | CXR | no | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Cocos (Keeling) | CCK | no | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Colombia | COL | no | yes | 24 | 0 | 24 |
Comoros | COM | no | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Congo | COD | no | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Republic of the Congo | 178 | no | yes | 1 | 3 | 4 |
Cook | COK | no | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Costa Rica | CRI | no | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Ivory Coast | CIV | no | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Croatia | HRV | no | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Cuba | CUB | no | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Curaçao | CUW | no | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Cyprus | CYP | no | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Czech | CZE | no | yes | 14 | 0 | 14 |
Denmark | DNK | no | yes | 8 | 0 | 8 |
Djibouti | DJI | no | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Dominica | DMA | no | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Dominican | DOM | no | yes | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Ecuador | ECU | no | yes | 1 | 4 | 5 |
Egypt | EGY | no | yes | 64 | 428 | 492 |
El Salvador | SLV | no | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Guinea | GNQ | no | yes | 1 | 0 | 1 |
Eritrea | ERI | no | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Estonia | EST | no | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Eswatini | SWZ | no | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Ethiopia | ETH | no | yes | 10 | 0 | 10 |
Falkland | FLK | no | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Faroe | FRO | no | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Fiji | FJI | no | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Finland | FIN | no | yes | 2 | 0 | 2 |
France | FRA | no | yes | 273 | 4 | 277 |
French Guiana | GUF | no | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
French Polynesia | PYF | no | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
French Southern and Antarctic Lands | ATF | no | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Gabon | GAB | no | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Gambia | GMB | no | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Georgia | GEO | no | yes | 8 | 2 | 10 |
Germany | DEU | no | yes | 36 | 14 | 50 |
Ghana | GHA | no | yes | 16 | 26 | 42 |
Gibraltar | GIB | no | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Greece | GRC | no | yes | 101 | 0 | 101 |
Greenland | GRL | no | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Grenada | GRD | no | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Guadeloupe | GLP | no | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Guam | GUM | no | yes | 3 | 0 | 3 |
Guatemala | GTM | no | yes | 0 | 10 | 10 |
Guernsey | GGY | no | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Guinea | GIN | no | yes | 1 | 0 | 1 |
Guinea-Bissau | GNB | no | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Guyana | GUY | no | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Haiti | HTI | no | yes | 8 | 0 | 8 |
Heard Island and McDonald Islands | HMD | no | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Holy See | VAT | no | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Honduras | HND | no | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Hong Kong | HKG | no | yes | 131 | 80 | 211 |
Hungary | HUN | no | yes | 4 | 0 | 4 |
Iceland | ISL | no | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
India | IND | no | yes | 279 | 258 | 537 |
Indonesia | IDN | no | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Iran | IRN | no | yes | 16 | 6 | 22 |
Iraq | IRQ | no | yes | 0 | 29 | 29 |
Ireland | IRL | no | yes | 1 | 0 | 1 |
Isle of Man | IMN | no | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Israel | ISR | no | yes | 11 | 8 | 19 |
Italy | ITA | no | yes | 70 | 61 | 131 |
Jamaica | JAM | no | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Japan | JPN | no | yes | 282 | 1 | 283 |
Jersey | JEY | no | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Jordan | JOR | no | yes | 16 | 23 | 39 |
Kazakhstan | KAZ | no | yes | 4 | 0 | 4 |
Kenya | KEN | no | yes | 28 | 0 | 28 |
Kiribati | KIR | no | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
North Korea | PRK | no | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
South Korea | KOR | no | yes | 562 | 13 | 575 |
Kuwait | KWT | no | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Kyrgyzstan | KGZ | no | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Laos | LAO | no | yes | 1 | 0 | 1 |
Latvia | LVA | no | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Lebanon | LBN | no | yes | 0 | 4 | 4 |
Lesotho | LSO | no | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Liberia | LBR | no | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Libya | LBY | no | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Liechtenstein | LIE | no | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Lithuania | LTU | no | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Luxembourg | LUX | no | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Macao | MAC | no | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Macedonia | MKD | no | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Madagascar | MDG | no | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Malawi | MWI | no | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Malaysia | MYS | no | yes | 26 | 2 | 28 |
Maldives | MDV | no | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Mali | MLI | no | yes | 0 | 2 | 2 |
Malta | MLT | no | yes | 0 | 4 | 4 |
Marshall Islands | MHL | no | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Martinique | MTQ | no | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Mauritania | MRT | no | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Mauritius | MUS | no | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Mayotte | MYT | no | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Mexico | MEX | no | yes | 63 | 32 | 95 |
Micronesia | FSM | no | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Moldova | MDA | no | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Monaco | MCO | no | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Mongolia | MNG | no | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Montenegro | MNE | no | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Montserrat | MSR | no | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Morocco | MAR | no | yes | 13 | 1 | 14 |
Mozambique | MOZ | no | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Myanmar | MMR | no | yes | 0 | 9 | 9 |
Namibia | NAM | no | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Nauru | NRU | no | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Nepal | NPL | no | yes | 1 | 0 | 1 |
Netherlands | NLD | no | yes | 103 | 1,529 | 1,632 |
New Caledonia | NCL | no | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
New Zealand | NZL | no | yes | 1 | 0 | 1 |
Nicaragua | NIC | no | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Niger | NER | no | yes | 16 | 0 | 16 |
Nigeria | NGA | no | yes | 15 | 1 | 16 |
Niue | NIU | no | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Norfolk Island | NFK | no | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Northern Mariana Islands | MNP | no | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Norway | NOR | no | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Oman | OMN | no | yes | 12 | 0 | 12 |
Pakistan | PAK | no | yes | 3 | 37 | 40 |
Palau | PLW | no | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Palestine | PS | no | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Panama | PAN | no | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Papua New Guinea | PNG | no | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Paraguay | PRY | no | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Peru | PER | no | yes | 3 | 93 | 96 |
Philippines | PHL | no | yes | 16 | 24 | 40 |
Pitcairn | TPC | no | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Poland | POL | no | yes | 28 | 112 | 140 |
Portugal | PRT | no | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Puerto Rico | PRI | no | yes | 13 | 1 | 14 |
Qatar | QAT | no | yes | 7 | 0 | 7 |
Réunion | REU | no | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Romania | ROU | no | yes | 3 | 0 | 3 |
Russia | RUS | no | yes | 2 | 20 | 22 |
Rwanda | RWA | no | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Saint Barthélemy | BLM | no | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Tristan da Cunha | SH | no | yes | 4 | 0 | 4 |
Saint Kitts and Nevis | KNA | no | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Saint Lucia | LCA | no | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Saint Martin | MAF | no | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Saint Pierre and Miquelon | SPM | no | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | VCT | no | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Samoa | WSM | no | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
San Marino | SMR | no | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
São Tomé and Príncipe | STP | no | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Saudi Arabia | SAU | no | yes | 501 | 28 | 529 |
Senegal | SEN | no | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Serbia | SRB | no | yes | 5 | 137 | 142 |
Seychelles | SYC | no | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Sierra Leone | SLE | no | yes | 0 | 10 | 10 |
Singapore | SGP | no | yes | 27 | 0 | 27 |
Sint Maarten | SXM | no | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Slovakia | SVK | no | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Slovenia | SVN | no | yes | 3 | 0 | 3 |
Solomon Islands | SLB | no | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Somalia | SOM | no | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
South Africa | ZAF | no | yes | 4 | 0 | 4 |
South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands | SGS | no | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
South Sudan | SSD | no | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Spain | ESP | no | yes | 31 | 20 | 51 |
Sri Lanka | LKA | no | yes | 4 | 0 | 4 |
Sudan | SDN | no | yes | 1 | 0 | 1 |
Suriname | SUR | no | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Jan Mayen | SJM | no | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Sweden | SWE | no | yes | 48 | 0 | 48 |
Switzerland | CHE | no | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Syria | SYR | no | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Taiwan | TWN | no | yes | 151 | 6 | 157 |
Tajikistan | TJK | no | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Tanzania | TZ | no | yes | 1 | 0 | 1 |
Thailand | THA | no | yes | 132 | 0 | 132 |
East Timor | TLS | no | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Togo | TGO | no | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Tokelau | TKL | no | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Tonga | TON | no | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Trinidad and Tobago | TTO | no | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Tunisia | TUN | no | yes | 2 | 48 | 50 |
Turkey | TUR | no | yes | 85 | 28 | 113 |
Turkmenistan | TKM | no | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Turks and Caicos Islands | TCA | no | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Tuvalu | TUV | no | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Uganda | UGA | no | yes | 3 | 0 | 3 |
Ukraine | UKR | no | yes | 2 | 0 | 2 |
United Arab Emirates | ARE | no | yes | 191 | 0 | 191 |
United Kingdom | UK | no | yes | 27 | 0 | 27 |
United States Minor Outlying Islands | UMI | no | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
United States | USA | no | yes | 1,270 | 19,034 | 20,304 |
Uruguay | URY | no | yes | 3 | 7 | 10 |
Uzbekistan | UZB | no | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Vanuatu | VUT | no | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Venezuela | VEN | no | yes | 0 | 6 | 6 |
Vietnam | VNM | no | yes | 10 | 0 | 10 |
British Virgin Islands | VGB | no | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
United States Virgin Islands | VIR | no | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Wallis and Futuna | WLF | no | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Western Sahara | ESH | no | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Yemen | YEM | no | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Zambia | ZMB | no | yes | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Zimbabwe | ZWE | no | no | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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