Researchers at the Wuhan Institute of Virology were investigating dangerous coronaviruses in high-risk bat species from Laos years before the pandemic began, leaked documents show.
The findings add more weight to the claim that Covid-19 leaked out from a Wuhan lab before causing a global pandemic. They also suggest that both the bat origin theory of the COVID-19 pandemic and the lab-leak theory could be simultaneously true.
Westernjournal.com reports: According to a Sunday report from The Telegraph, scientists in September came across a coronavirus strain named Banal-52 in Laos. Banal-52 shared 96.8 percent of its genome with SARS-CoV-2.
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While, according to the Telegraph, the discovery of Banal-52 and its similarity with Sars-CoV-2 strengthened hypotheses which argued that the source of the pandemic was a natural spillover instead of a lab escape, it raised questions of how Banal-52 could have somehow given rise to SARS-CoV-2 in Wuhan over 1,000 miles away.
Leaked emails between EcoHealth Alliance and U.S. government funders provide some answers to those questions, according to reporting from the Telegraph.
U.S.-based bipartisan group White Coat Waste Project got access to these emails through a Freedom of Information Request, the outlet reported.
These emails revealed that between June 2017 and May 2019, the Wuhan Institute of Virology received viral samples of “bats and other high-risk species” from Laos, according to the reports.
Prior to Banal-52’s discovery, the EcoHealth Alliance was looking at other bat viruses, including in Yunnan, China, and sending them to the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
One such virus is RaTG13, also remarkably similar genetically to Sars-Cov-2. RaTG13 was first discovered in a horseshoe bat in a Yunnan mineshaft that the Chinese government denies researchers access to, according to Daily Mail.
According to reports, information about the genetic sequences of the samples collected from both Laos and Yunnan were cleared from an online database at the Wuhan institute where they were stored until September 2019.
Since the data was cleared, researchers cannot precisely determine what strains the Wuhan Institute of Virology studied.
New Zealand based data scientist and pandemic origins researcher Gilles Demaneuf believed that the leaked documents’ revelations offer a “plausible” route to trace the virus’ spread from Laotian bats to Wuhan, according to the Daily Mail.
“Now we have a very plausible direct route with two options,” Demanuef wrote in a blog post, the Telegraph reported.
Co-author of “Viral: The Search for the Origin of Covid-19,” Viscount Matt Ridley views the leaked emails as something offering more support to the lab leak theory, according to the Telegraph.
“Banal-52 is not close enough to be the progenitor, it’s still not the smoking gun, but it’s pretty good. So maybe this virus started in Laos, not China. Interesting possibility,” Ridley reportedly said when he was speaking at the Institute of Economic Affairs.
“But we got a leak of a document showing that the EcoHealth Alliance was sampling bats in Laos. They say in the document that because it would be complicated to come back and ask the U.S. Government for permission to give some of the grant to a Laotian lab, they’d like to send all these samples to a lab that can analyse it for them. It was in a place called Wuhan. So the outbreak happened in a city with the world’s largest research programme on bat-borne coronaviruses, whose scientists had gone to at least two places where these Sars-CoV-2-like viruses live,” Ridley said, according to the Telegraph.
Speaking to Daily Mail, Ridley suggested two possibilities: “Number one, a Wuhan bat sampler infected on a field sampling trip. Number two, a research accident in Wuhan when manipulating a Laos Banal-like bat coronavirus.”
According to another leaked document accessed by Drastic, an open source data analyst group, Dr. Peter Daszak, the head of EcoHealth Alliance, had proposed that the U.S. government fund “to artificially insert cleavage sites into Sars-like coronaviruses collected in the field and studied in Wuhan,” the Daily Mail reported.
The United States declined Daszak’s 2018 request for $14.2 million out of concerns over the impact of the Alliance’s virus alteration work.
Ridley, however believes that while the U.S. turned down Daszak, the work still proceeded.
“Most of the funding for the Wuhan Institute of Virology comes from the Chinese not the American government, after all; so the failure to win the U.S. grant may not have prevented the work being done. Moreover, exactly such an experiment had already been done with a different kind of coronavirus by — guess who? — the Wuhan Institute of Virology,” Ridley wrote in an article for The Spectator World.
Sean Adl-Tabatabai
100% false, the SARS Virus was brought to America, by Dr. Fauci’s Three Stooge Act, it was then sent back to China for research for Gain of Functions. To turn a virus into a pandemic, The T- Cell of the COVID Virus was found in the Vaccines, along with the T-Cell of HIV. This release of information was done a doctor of the United States Military.
all it takes is one fox bat infected illegally imported the fox bat flys 1,000s of miles per-year and does not stay in the same place,I was attacked by a red fox bat on juno beach in florida in 2016 i missed having my neck ripped out by two inches as I hit it in the head with a flash light- it than went after my wife but I fought it off.I had never seen one before in my life and it must have been imported.I was also attacked by a 16 foot black momba in juno years ago and than someone got busted for illegal snake importing.We got covid like sick a few times after the fox bat attack in 2016.I think the east coast had covid first? or at least new york had it first and and any fox bat could fly that far yearly.I think it was a fox bat infected in ther lab used as a weapon to kill off the hughes`s and keep HHMI trillions in thier hands but their weapon bat slipped thier nets and tethers
And the location of where they decided to carry on the research is strategically decided based upon their military interests. To deceive the world Again. As usual.
the CCP and the CIA are on the same side, they are working for the Central banks of the west. They are tools for the central banks.
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