Peer-Reviewed Study: Are pangolins the intermediate host of the 2019 novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2)?

PLOS Pathogens ^ | May 14,2020

[SeekAndFind]

Are pangolins the intermediate host of the 2019 novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2)?

AUTHORS

Ping Liu ,Jing-Zhe Jiang ,Xiu-Feng Wan,Yan Hua,Linmiao Li,Jiabin Zhou,Xiaohu Wang,Fanghui Hou,Jing Chen,Jiejian Zou,Jinping Chen

Affiliation

Guangdong Key Laboratory of Animal Conservation and Resource Utilization, Guangdong Public Laboratory of Wild Animal Conservation and Utilization, Guangdong Institute of Applied Biological Resources, Guangdong Academy of Science, Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, China

Abstract

The outbreak of a novel corona Virus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) in the city of Wuhan, China has resulted in more than 1.7 million laboratory confirmed cases all over the world. Recent studies showed that SARS-CoV-2 was likely originated from bats, but its intermediate hosts are still largely unknown. In this study, we assembled the complete genome of a coronavirus identified in 3 sick Malayan pangolins.

The molecular and phylogenetic analyses showed that this pangolin coronavirus (pangolin-CoV-2020) is genetically related to the SARS-CoV-2 as well as a group of bat coronaviruses but do not support the SARS-CoV-2 emerged directly from the pangolin-CoV-2020.

Our study suggests that pangolins are natural hosts of Betacoronaviruses. Large surveillance of coronaviruses in pangolins could improve our understanding of the spectrum of coronaviruses in pangolins. In addition to conservation of wildlife, minimizing the exposures of humans to wildlife will be important to reduce the spillover risks of coronaviruses from wild animals to humans.

[SeekAndFind]

Well, if this is the conclusion, this leaves us with the following leading theories as to the origins of SARS-CoV-2:

1. A bat coronavirus with a never before seen pangolin-like RBM came from a wet market that didn't sell bats or pangolins, and now some other species is the intermediary - unless a pangolin is eventually found with SARS-CoV-2.
   
2. It was engineered at Fort Detrick, Maryland's USAMRIID and spread by the US army in a clandestine mission last October during a sporting event in Wuhan, China (a far-fetched conspiracy theory promoted by the CCP).
3. Scientists working with bat coronavirus, in the exact town it emerged from - who made headlines in 2015 for modifying bat coronaviruses specifically to infect humans (and were internationally admonished for it) - either created SARS-CoV-2 by splicing pangolin receptors onto RaTG13, or captured it in nature, and an employee accidentally infected herself before going shopping at the wet market during the virus's long asymptomatic period (and hasn't been heard from since).

Read the peer-reviewed study in the above link

[Grimmy]

It could be, if pangolin is some new urban slang for biological warfare scientist.

[House Atreides]

More CHINESE attempts at MISDIRECTION!

SQUIRREL!

[nickcarraway]

Vegan propaganda.

[poinq]

The intermediate host is The Virology Lab of Wuhan.

[Chauncey Gardiner]

Has no animal origin. Man made.

[Bratch]

4. Military and political leaders, aware of the weaponization of COVID-19, unleashed the contagion as a response to President Trump’s successful economic pressure against the Chinese.

[Viking2002]

No, I ain’t looking. I fell for that last time.

[datura]

Thank you for your spot on analysis.

I’m very happy I was wrong about you before, please accept my apologies.

[rfp1234]

You don’t tug on the pangolin’s tail.
You don’t eat sick-looking rats.
You don’t tear the lid off a vial marked “Danger”.
And you don’t mess around with bats.

[libertylover]

It was engineered at Fort Detrick, Maryland's USAMRIID and spread by the US army in a clandestine mission last October during a sporting event in Wuhan, China (a far-fetched conspiracy theory promoted by the CCP).

Are you sure this came from the CCP and not CNN?

[TeleStraightShooter]

RoFLol

[TeleStraightShooter]

Turns out the Genome for RaTG13 was never uploaded to a public server until Jan 27 2020.

Wuhan Lab’s famous BatWoman said she was relieved they did not have the RaTG13 virus in the their lab...

https://gmwatch.org/en/news/latest-news/19396-evidence-that-the-sars-cov-2-virus-is-genetically-engineered

[Arcadian Empire]

They took something destructive and started a process of messing with it to make it even more destructive.

[steve86]

I’ve been having pangolin nightmares for the last couple months. Even the chicks working in the dream McDonalds have pangolin facial features. And there’s worse stuff.

[jonrick46]

My theory is that Huang Yanling secretly infected herself while at work at the Wuhan Institute of Virology. She did this to infect her boyfriend in a murder plot. Her infected boyfriend then went to the Wuhan Wet Market to get food for dinner. If she also died, it was a murder suicide.

[Salamander]

Exactly.

makes as much sense as

1: Collect underpants
2:?
3: Profit

[Crucial]

The Wuhan Institute of Virology was in complete shutdown in October. After the outbreak, the Chicoms revised their protocols on handling deadly viruses. Let’s see what is 2+2 again? I’m asking for our useless Press.

[CJ Wolf]

https://youtu.be/LQZ65v0Cb_I

The Chinaaasees eat pangolians