Posted on 11/20/2020 11:56:50 AM PST by SeekAndFind
The virus that causes the Covid-19 disease has now infected more than 54 million people across the planet, but the question of just where it came from remains a mystery.
Researchers may have found a new link in this puzzle after discovering evidence suggesting the pathogen had infected people across Italy as early as September last year, or months before it was first identified in the Chinese city of Wuhan.
The unexpected finding “may reshape the history of [the] pandemic”, said the team led by Dr Gabriella Sozzi, a life scientist with the National Cancer Institute of Milan, in a peer-reviewed paper published last week in the Tumori Journal.
The researchers tested blood samples from lung cancer screening tests in Italy and said they found antibodies specific to Sars-CoV-2, the virus causing Covid-19, in samples from patients all over the country in every month of a six-month trial that started in September 2019.
The presence of the antibodies indicates the virus was infecting people in Italy before it was detected in Wuhan in late December.
Tracing the pandemic to its origin could help prevent future outbreaks, and to this end the World Health Organization has in recent weeks separately pulled together an international team of scientists to investigate.
However the puzzle of Covid-19’s origin has been further complicated by politics. As the virus spread and turned into a pandemic, both Beijing and the WHO were criticised over their initial handling of the outbreak.
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FROM THE ARTICLE:
A study by Oxford University scientists on the virus’ mutation history suggested it likely emerged somewhere outside Wuhan. Institut Pasteur researchers in France found the viral strains circulating in their country were quite different from those in China.
In Spain, Italy and Brazil, researchers identified the virus’ genes in sewage samples dated months before the disease was named as a pandemic. These studies were also made possible because Chinese scientists released the virus’ full genome sequence to researchers in other countries before getting approval from the government.
But these findings, mostly based on computer modelling or isolated evidence, were not strong enough to overthrow the Wuhan-origin theory.
ChiCom propaganda. The WUHAN FLU came from the ChiCom biowarfare (dual use) lab in Wuhan.
Italy? Nah, that’s Little China, where China patrols the streets.
Italy is a favored VayCay destination for well-to-do Chinese.............
Very interesting findings! Hopefully we’ll get more clarity on this moving forward. Thank you for sharing.
> ChiCom propaganda. <
You betcha. And China has the money, the patience, and the will to make it stick. Who’s going to challenge them, anyway? It sure won’t be “China Joe” Biden.
Where in Italy was the high risk virus laboratory with its star “I make bat viruses infect humans” lady scientist?
More lies.
We are convinced my wife had it in Dec’18 through March ‘19.
Still never fully recovered her lung capacity 100% and she was fit and had no health issues previous.
She wa skn the hospital and went to 5 diff docs and all were perplexed.
>>Italy is a favored VayCay destination for well-to-do Chinese.............
Northern Italy is full of Chinese immigrant workers, who went home around Christmas then went back to Italy with the virus. That’s why Italy was one of the hardest hit countries early on.
I think I had it in 1969 in the Central Highlands of Vietnam. /sarc
Have to wonder if the Democrats work with China to release the virus for a Reset in America. They are so quick to lock down makes me wonder.
I don’t believe anything anymore from my “betters”...
Bogus.
Not that it was in Italy in September but that therefore it originated outside of China is nonsense.
You might have.
There is another study, released a few days ago, showing that the virus was around for about thousands of years.
And the Asians worked out genetic response to it back than.
Here:
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.11.16.385401v1
I still say this virus was spread by vaping using Chinese made materials.
Remember young people getting struck down by a “mysterious” vaping disease where they trouble breathing in late summer/fall of 2019?
Please do not post this crap on FreeRepublic. It has no value except to promote propaganda for the Chinese. We all know what they want and how they plan on getting there.
Sounds crazy but I think I had it in Feb 19. Pneumonia (single), hypoxia, felt like crap for maybe 4 weeks. It went around our office (downtown BOS), whacked a few of us 50+ types. Maybe I’ll get that antibody test.
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