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WHO researchers in China conclude COVID unlikely leaked from Wuhan Institute of Virology ... Research team says the virus more likely jumped from an animal to humans.
https://justthenews.com ^ | Updated: February 9, 2021 - 8:12am | By Joseph Weber

Posted on 02/09/2021 5:51:45 AM PST by Red Badger

The team of World Health Organization researchers that has been in China over the past few weeks trying to determine how the novel coronavirus started in that country says the disease is unlikely to have leaked from the Wuhan Institute of Virology and more likely jumped from an animal to a human.

The conclusion was announced Tuesday as the team concluded its investigation.

The Chinese government said when first reporting the virus outbreak in late-2019 that it started when a woman bought and ate a bat at an exotic, outdoor food market in the city of Wuhan. However, U.S. lawmakers and others have since raised concerns about whether it was leaked from the lab.

In addition, world leaders have raised concerns about the Chinese Communist Party's transparency about the start of virus and its early response. And they have raised similar concerns about the WHO.

The central China lab having collected extensive virus samples led to the allegations that it may have caused the original outbreak by leaking the virus into the surrounding community.

The WHO team is considering several theories for how the disease first ended up in humans, leading to a pandemic that has now killed more than 2.3 million people worldwide, according to the Associated Press.

"Our initial findings suggest that the introduction through an intermediary host species is the most likely pathway and one that will require more studies and more specific targeted research," WHO food safety and animal diseases expert Peter Ben Embarek said at a news conference Tuesday.

"However, the findings suggest that the laboratory incidents hypothesis is extremely unlikely to explain the introduction of the virus to the human population" and will not be suggested as an avenue of future study, Embarek also said, according to the wire service.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Government
KEYWORDS: bioweapon; ccpvirus; collusion; obstruction; virus; who; wuhan
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WHO: No Wu........................
1 posted on 02/09/2021 5:51:45 AM PST by Red Badger
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To: Red Badger

China owns WHO, so what do you expect?


2 posted on 02/09/2021 5:52:45 AM PST by brownsfan (The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.)
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To: Red Badger

Of course they said that, they work for the CCP.

And maybe they want to leave, alive.


3 posted on 02/09/2021 5:53:01 AM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents)(Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Red Badger

So we’re back to the wet market theory and those should be banned.


4 posted on 02/09/2021 6:02:25 AM PST by Skywise
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To: Red Badger

And if you believe that, they’ll tell you another one!


5 posted on 02/09/2021 6:02:41 AM PST by Tucker39 ("It is impossible so to rightly govern a nation without God and the Bible." George Washington )
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To: Red Badger

Wow. Really? Gobsmacked, I tell ya.

I thought that they’d at least take a couple more weeks to make it look like a serious investigation...

/s


6 posted on 02/09/2021 6:03:01 AM PST by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -)
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To: brownsfan

Just a matter of time before it’s blamed on the Jews.


7 posted on 02/09/2021 6:04:56 AM PST by billorites (freepo ergo sum)
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To: Red Badger
likely and unlikly are not scientific terms.

Evidence based on fact would be nice.

8 posted on 02/09/2021 6:05:13 AM PST by Sacajaweau
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To: Red Badger

In other news, WHO endorses steaming bovine excrement sandwiches as the healthiest and most nutritious food source.


9 posted on 02/09/2021 6:05:51 AM PST by LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget
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To: Red Badger

The Big Lie


10 posted on 02/09/2021 6:06:43 AM PST by faucetman (Just the facts, ma'am, Just the facts )
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To: Lurkinanloomin

Exactly. No jumping from China back to Africa or wherever for WHO without saying that. Complete garbage.


11 posted on 02/09/2021 6:07:52 AM PST by Ahithophel (Communication is an art form susceptible to sudden technical failure)
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To: brownsfan

That is one theory. But their is a strong case to be made that Covid-19 was a bio-warfare attack on the US in particular and the world in general.

China wants to be the dominate power in the world. I don’t think anyone can honestly dispute that statement.


12 posted on 02/09/2021 6:09:49 AM PST by elpadre
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To: Red Badger

They have proof of exactly NOTHING one way or the other.

Fourth world idjit commies.


13 posted on 02/09/2021 6:11:24 AM PST by Uncle Miltie (Ashlii Babbitt, Kevin Clinesmith, Seth Rich, Jeffrey Epstein, Peter Strzok, Ruby Freeman, Jim Comey)
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To: Red Badger

Fox guarding the henhouse, much??

Only American on this “investigation” team was FRAUDci’s wingman.

🤔


14 posted on 02/09/2021 6:16:50 AM PST by Jane Long (America, Bless God....blessed be the Nation 🙏🏻🇺🇸)
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To: Red Badger

it’s Trump’s fault


15 posted on 02/09/2021 6:28:51 AM PST by mjp ((pro-{God, reality, reason, egoism, individualism, natural rights, limited government, capitalism}))
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To: Red Badger

The trouble with the planet Earth is that it has way too many “assperts” that know everything.


16 posted on 02/09/2021 6:38:13 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (You can vote your way into socialism but you have to shoot your way out of it.)
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To: Red Badger

Now, it’s jumping BACK to the animals in the zoos. Whiskey Tango Foxtrot? Time to rename it the Ping Pong flu. Maybe not. That sounds too Red Chinesist.


17 posted on 02/09/2021 6:41:25 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (You can vote your way into socialism but you have to shoot your way out of it.)
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To: Red Badger

I’m 98.2% sure that they are lying to coverup for the CCP.

https://www.biospace.com/article/releases/new-study-by-dr-steven-quay-concludes-that-sars-cov-2-came-from-a-laboratory/


18 posted on 02/09/2021 6:42:32 AM PST by Dave Wright
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To: Red Badger

That lump under the rug is bat lady.

The WHO is worthless. Something that President Trump realized early on.

Too bad his fraud covered successor can’t see that.


19 posted on 02/09/2021 6:47:52 AM PST by upchuck (When it absolutely, positively has to get there, choose something other than USPS.)
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To: Red Badger
After the genocidal maniac, Tedros Adhanom signed the report, President Xi patted him on the head and gave him a lollipop.
20 posted on 02/09/2021 6:51:03 AM PST by liberalh8ter (The only difference between flash mob 'urban yutes' and U.S. politicians is the hoodies.)
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