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Porton Down UK The military laboratory was the hub of Britain’s biological weapons trials between 1939 and 1989. By Ministry of Defence scientists.
Wuhan Institute of Virology in China Wanted to Genetically Enhance Bat Viruses to Study Human Risks, Documents released show:
In one sample of bat guano, Zhengli Shi had detected the genome of a new virus, called SHC014, that was one of the two closest relatives to the original SARS virus.
The Real Facts
Less than two years before the COVID-19 pandemic began, scientists at the Wuhan Institute of Virology planned to genetically alter viruses to make them more infectious for humans.
The Wuhan scientists with were listed as partners on a funding proposal the environmental health nonprofit EcoHealth Alliance made to the U.S. government's Defense *Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
In 2013, the American virologist Ralph Baric approached Zhengli Shi at a meeting. Baric was a top expert in coronaviruses, with hundreds of papers to his credit, and Zhengli Shi , along with her team at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, had been discovering them by the fistful in bat caves.
In a 2015 paper, “A SARS-like cluster of circulating bat coronaviruses shows potential for human emergence,” was a tour de force, utilizing bleeding-edge genetic technology to alert the civilized world to a looming danger on its periphery. It also revived concerns about gain-of-function experiments, which Baric had known it would.
In the paper, he spelled out the extra precautions he’d taken and held up the research.
Sure enough, Zhengli Shi showed the chimera exhibited “robust replication” in the human cells—evidence that nature was full of coronaviruses ready to leap directly to people.
The origin of the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes COVID-19 remains unclear, but recent revelations reinforce the likelihood that the true source was a lab leak from the Wuhan Institute of Virology under Zhengli Shi. The CCP and the Army took over the Lab.
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