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Let’s assume that an international team finds a pangolin in nature that harbors a virus which is the direct link to SARS-CoV-2. It is 100% certain that the virus from this pangolin community jumped to humans. Does that disprove the theory that the virus escaped from a lab due to negligence or...

In an earlier post I said that I don’t think that it will be possible to determine with 100% certainty where the virus came from. My opinion is also that it is possible to create a virus like the SARS-CoV-2 in the lab. I am a molecular biologist and have manipulated many kinds of vectors, but...

Can you exclude that it may happen in Nature? I did a quick search and found the following: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/10438823/ Quoted from the abstract: A pattern of insertions and deletions in the hemagglutinin and the neuraminidase of different strains of influenza B viruses is...

NIH-halted study unveils its massive analysis of bat coronaviruses Quotes from this article And even the hundreds of viruses included in the current paper are only a fraction of what remains to be discovered, Daszak says. “We are looking at maybe 10,000 to 15,000 bat coronaviruses that are out...

While I don't believe that SARS-CoV-2 is man made or escaped from a research or military lab, intentionally or unintentionally, biological weapon R&D is a fact and everybody should know about it. In that respect I recommend the below book. This book was published 20 years ago and tells the story...

Evolution of pandemic coronavirus outlines path from animals to humans Conducting a genetic analysis, researchers from Duke University, Los Alamos National Laboratory, the University of Texas at El Paso and New York University confirmed that the closest relative of the virus was a coronavirus...

In addition, while "man made by genetic engineering" can be judged as very unlikely by looking at the structure of the genetic code and the restriction map of SARS-CoV-2 and comparing this data with other known Corona viruses, "man made by using an evolutionary process" cannot be ruled out with...