Apparently cuisine carries diseases:

Chinese eateries in Australia in crisis as virus spooks customers

Some 8000 kilometres from Hubei province - where this coronavirus outbreak began - once-thriving Asian food districts in Sydney and Melbourne have been turned into “ghost towns”.

Outside a small eatery in Sydney’s Eastwood, a suburb with a large Chinese community, a chalk board tries to reassure and lure in customers with words written in Mandarin: “The restaurant has been sanitised!”

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