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Coronavirus conspiracy debunked by Wuhan researcher
By Zhang Zhihao | chinadaily.com.cn | Updated: 2020-02-02 19:29
A scientist from the Wuhan Institute of Virology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has
debunked a recent conspiracy which claimed the novel coronavirus was manufactured and
escaped from the institute’s most advanced biocontainment facility.
Shi Zhengli, a researcher from the institute, said on her social media on Sunday the virus
was the result of "nature punishing the uncivilized habits and customs of humans",
and she is willing to "bet my life that [the outbreak] has nothing to do with the lab."
Shi was the leading scientist who made the discovery the novel coronavirus can enter
cells through ACE2 receptors and may have originated from bats.
Her comments came after Indian scientists recently published a non-peer reviewed
paper suggesting scientists had artificially inserted genes from the HIV virus into the
coronavirus, thus making it susceptible to anti-HIV treatments.
The paper was immediately panned by experts around the world and retracted from
biology journal server bioRxiv on Sunday.
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http://global.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202002/02/WS5e36b2b7a31012821727432e.ht

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ahh, "nature punishing the uncivilized habits and customs of humans"
doesn't sound like a scientific, rational, logical arguing to me ...
BTW. the lab was not level IV before 2015
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wuhan_Institute_of_Virology