Pro-Manufactured:
https://meaww.com/coronavirus-could-have-originated-wuhan-lab-bats-report-sars-
“The 2019-nCoV coronavirus has caused an epidemic of 28,060 laboratory-confirmed infections in humans including 564 deaths in China by February 6, 2020. Two descriptions of the virus published on Nature this week indicated
that the genome sequences from patients were 96% or 89% identical to the Bat CoV ZC45 coronavirus originally found in Rhinolophus affinis. It was critical to study where the pathogen came from and how it passed onto human,” says the study.
The researchers screened the area around the seafood market and identified two laboratories conducting research on bat coronavirus.
Within approximately 280 meters from the market, there was the Wuhan Center for Disease Control & Prevention (WHCDC). WHCDC hosted animals in laboratories for research purposes, one of which was specialized in pathogens collection and identification, says the paper.
“In one of their studies, 155 bats including Rhinolophus affinis were captured in Hubei province, and other 450 bats were captured in Zhejiang province. The expert in the collection was noted in the Author Contributions (JHT). Moreover, he was broadcasted for collecting viruses on nation-wide newspapers and websites in 2017 and 2019. He described that he was once by attacked by bats and the blood of a bat shot on his skin. He knew the extreme danger of the infection so he quarantined himself for 14 days. In another accident, he quarantined himself again because bats peed on him. He was once thrilled for capturing a bat carrying a live tick,” the findings state.
The researchers say that surgery was performed on the caged animals and the tissue samples were collected for DNA and RNA extraction and sequencing. The tissue samples and contaminated trashes were source of pathogens, says the team.
“They were only ~280 meters from the seafood market. The WHCDC was also adjacent to the Union Hospital, where the first group of doctors was infected during this epidemic. It is plausible that the virus leaked around and some of them contaminated the initial patients in this epidemic, though solid proofs are needed in future study,” say researchers in the paper.
Pro-Accidental:
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/202...-conspiracy-theories-about-origin-coronavirus
