Covid’s theory of first leakage from Chinese labs has been supported by new documents that reveal Wuhan scientists studied carriers of the virus in Wuhan. The virus shares 96.6 percent of its genome and Sars-Cov-2 during the time before the outbreak.
Banal-52 was a virus strain that was found in Lao bats. It was first discovered in September. This was used to support the notion that Covid-19 was a result of a natural spillover and not an accidental laboratory leak.
However, the question of how an infectious virus that originated from Lao bats may have caused an epidemic in Wuhan, which is over 1,000 miles away, remains.
Sars-Cov-2, a virus that was found in Lao bats is pictured in a Luang Prabang market. It is not clear how it traveled 1000 miles from Laos in order to reach Wuhan. Documents leaked reveal that US-funded researchers sent viral samples to Wuhan Institute of Virology from Laos bats.
The bat-borne coronavirus, Banal-52, shares 96.8 percent of its genome with Sars-Cov-2, leading some to believe it could have given rise to the Covid pandemic
Banal-52 is a virus that was found in Lao bats (pictured in Luang Prabang at a market). It shares 96.6 percent of its DNA with Sars-Cov-2
A market was held in Luang Prabang (Laos) where bats were sold – possibly carrying the Sars-Cov-2 progenitor. How did this bat-borne virus get 1000 miles from Laos to Wuhan? The Wuhan Institute of Virology funded US studies were revealed by leaked documents that showed viral samples of Lao bats being sent to them.
The puzzle could now be resolved, with emails between EcoHealth Alliance (US government) revealing that virus samples from Lao bats had been collected for research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
White Coat Waste Project in the USA, an American campaign group, discovered that Wuhan received viral DNA from bats and high-risk animals between June 2017 and May 2019.
Leaked emails between EcoHealth Alliance and US government funders reveal viral samples from Lao bats were being collected and sent for study in the Wuhan Institute of Virology between June 2017 to May 2019
EcoHealth Alliance was also working in Laos. They were studying cave bat viruses, Yunnan in China and sent the samples to Wuhan scientists for further research.
Researchers have been prevented from accessing the Yunnan mine shaft by the Chinese government, which is where RaTG13 (pictured) was found.
RaTG13 is also strikingly genetically similar to Sars-Cov-2. It was discovered in Yunnan’s mine shaft in horseshoe bats.
The Wuhan institute removed records of genetic sequences from Yunnan as well as Laos from its online database in September 2019. This left experts in the dark about which strains had been examined there.
Co-author of a book about Covid’s origins, Lord Matt Ridley stated that the Lao link offers hope to Western researchers who have been hindered in their search for truth by China’s unwillingness to cooperate
Gilles Demaneuf is a New Zealand-based Data Scientist and member of Drastic’s Pandemic-origins Research Group. He said the revelation offered a “plausible” route to viral transmission from Lao bats into people in Wuhan.
A blog by Mr Dermaneuf recently stated: “Now, we have a very feasible direct route with only two options.
Co-author of SARS-CoV-2’s origins: Lord Matt Ridley believes that the backstory to the pandemic may have originated in Laos. This gives hope to Western researchers, whose quest for truth has been thwarted by a stubborn China
Number one: A Wuhan bat sampler was infected while on a field sampling mission. Number two: A research accident in Wuhan while manipulating the Laos Banal bat coronavirus.
Drastic, an open-source data analysis group, leaked another document in September. It revealed that Dr Peter Daszak (head of EcoHealth Alliance) had asked the US government to fund artificially inserting cleavage sites in Sars-like coronaviruses found in the field.
Due to the risk of viral manipulations, Dr Peter Daszak’s request for $14.2M in 2018 was rejected.
Co-author of Viral. The Search for the Origin of Covid-19 was Lord Matt Ridley. Ridley said the US government may have rejected the proposal to insert cleavage site into Sars-like Coronaviruses.
Lord Ridley stated in a recent column that the Wuhan Institute of Virology was funded primarily by the Chinese, and not from the American government. Therefore, it is possible that the US grant did not prevent the work.
‘Moreover, exactly such an experiment had already been done with a different kind of coronavirus by — guess who? — the Wuhan Institute of Virology.’
When Lord Ridley addressed the possibility of a link to Laos bats in his address, he highlighted the potential benefit it would bring western researchers who have been unsuccessful in their search for the truth regarding SARS-CoV-2.
RaTG13, another coronavirus found in bats in Yunnan, China, is another candidate for being Sars-Cov-2’s progenitor
Lord Ridley stated that if the path to the origin of the pandemic runs through Laos it’s possible for western countries to find more.
“The Chinese government blocked anyone who tried to reach the Yunnan mineshaft where RaTG13 was discovered.
RaTG13 is a bat-borne virus that was found in Yunnan (China) in horseshoe bats. It has a striking genetic similarity with Sars-Cov-2. Pictured is a horseshoe frog hanging from rock in cave.
“But we now know that the US funded virus sampling in Laos. The EcoHealth Alliance must report on what it found.
‘Saying ‘Oh, that data belongs to the Chinese now’ is not good enough. American taxpayers paid for the project. The US National Institutes of Health requested additional information late in the process.
EcoHealth Alliance didn’t respond to our request immediately.