By Frances Mulraney and Glenn Owen, Apr 12, 2020 | Original Daily Mail article here.
Coronavirus may have leaked from lab performing experiments on bats from Chinese caves
- The US National Institutes of Health, a government agency, awarded a $3.7 million research grant to the Wuhan Institute of Virology on coronavirus transmission in the lab over the past decade
- The lab experimented on bats from the source of the coronavirus
- They were captured more than 1,000 from Chinese caves
- Sequencing of the Covid-19 genome has traced it to bats from Yunnan’s caves
The Chinese laboratory at the center of scrutiny over a potential coronavirus leak has been using U.S. government money to carry out research on bats from the caves which scientists believe are the original source of the deadly outbreak. The Wuhan Institute of Virology undertook coronavirus experiments on mammals captured more than 1,000 miles away in Yunnan which were funded by a $3.7 million grant from the US government.
Sequencing of the COVID-19 genome has traced the virus back to bats found in Yunnan caves. It was first alleged to have transferred to humans at an animal market in Wuhan, but that story is not credible. The revelation that the Wuhan Institute was experimenting on bats from the area already known to be the source of COVID-19 — and doing so with American money.
Lawmakers and pressure groups were quick to lash out at U.S. funding for the ‘dangerous and cruel animal experiments at the Wuhan Institute’.
A laboratory at the center of scrutiny over the coronavirus pandemic has been carrying out research on bats from the cave which scientists believe is the original source of the outbreak.
Workers are seen next to a cage with mice inside the BSL-4 laboratory in Wuhan. It has been revealed that the lab also carried out research on bats from the source location of COVID-19.
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