[GOPJ]

This expert said that based on these very improbable structures he believes the virus did not occur naturally but was modified by genetic methods that only changed those structures that allowed it to cross species. This would only have occurred in a research lab for test purposes...

Testing for what? Is this a bioweapon site or not?

[grey_whiskers]

Testing vaccines, maybe?
Defense against bioweapons is of interest to governments, too, you know.