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Chinese researchers find new “bat-to-human coronavirus”

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The study was led by an expert from the Wuhan Institute known as “batwoman”.

A Chinese research team has discovered a new “bat coronavirus” which uses the same receptor as Covid-19 to infect humans. The study shows the need to monitor the pathogen to prevent it from spreading, Reuters reported on Saturday.

The “novel virus” represents a distinct lineage of the HKU5 coronavirus, originally identified in the Japanese Pipistrelle bat in Hong Kong.

The study, conducted at the Guangzhou Laboratory, was led by Shi Zhengli, often referred to as “batwoman” because of her extensive work on bat coronaviruses. Zhengli is best known for her work at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, which has been at the centre of controversy regarding the origins of Covid-19. While one theory posits a lab leak in Wuhan, Shi has consistently denied that the institute was to blame for the outbreak.

In December last year, the US Congressional Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic finished a 520-page report on the origin of the infection. The two-year investigation claimed that the Chinese government, along with some international experts and agencies “sought to cover up facts concerning the origins of the pandemic.”

Beijing has rejected the lab-leak theory.

First detected in the central Chinese city of Wuhan in December 2019, the coronavirus spread far beyond the country’s borders, allegedly killing “over seven million people worldwide”.

Image credit: James Wainscoat

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9 COMMENTS

  1. Why dont they just focus on a truth virus where once infected you cant lie.
    Most of our paid representatives seem to be already innoculated against this.
    The truth virus would really pose a threat to the stability of the land of lies.

  2. Love the pic in the article…looks like the bat is on final approach to Reagan International Airport!
    Any choppers around in the approach path flown by DEI Pilots??

  3. Still peddling the ‘virus’ narrative? ‘Yep’.
    Reinforcing a ‘fear’ narrative while lacking the intellectual nous to drill into and falsify the ‘contagious obligate intracellular parasite’ nonsense ? ‘Yep’
    Legacy media MO? ‘Yep’

  4. There is no such thing as a virus
    Well there could be
    But no one has ever isolated separated and identified one
    Instead they changed the name of isolated
    Resulting in the snake oil Ardern was pumping as safe proven and effective
    Against what?
    With devastating consequences
    Official narrative cover story jargon long covid
    Or the Ardern hangover

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