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Newly Released Gov Docs Show Researchers Sent Strains of 'Viral DNA' to Wuhan Lab for Years
https://www.westernjournal.com ^ | By Andrew Jose November 21, 2021 at 3:17pm

Posted on 11/22/2021 9:05:24 AM PST by Red Badger

Researchers at the Wuhan Institute of Virology were investigating coronaviruses in high-risk bat species from Laos prior to the pandemic, leaked documents revealed.

The findings lend more weight to the hypothesis that SARS-CoV-2 leaked out from a Wuhan laboratory before causing a global pandemic, according to Daily Mail. They also suggest that it might be possible that both the bat origin theory of the COVID-19 pandemic and the lab-leak theory could be simultaneously true.

According to a Sunday report from The Telegraph, scientists in September came across a coronavirus strain named Banal-52 in Laos. Banal-52 shared 96.8 percent of its genome with SARS-CoV-2.

While, according to the Telegraph, the discovery of Banal-52 and its similarity with Sars-CoV-2 strengthened hypotheses which argued that the source of the pandemic was a natural spillover instead of a lab escape, it raised questions of how Banal-52 could have somehow given rise to SARS-CoV-2 in Wuhan over 1,000 miles away.

Leaked emails between EcoHealth Alliance and U.S. government funders provide some answers to those questions, according to reporting from the Telegraph.

U.S.-based bipartisan group White Coat Waste Project got access to these emails through a Freedom of Information Request, the outlet reported.

These emails revealed that between June 2017 and May 2019, the Wuhan Institute of Virology received viral samples of “bats and other high-risk species” from Laos, according to the reports.

Prior to Banal-52’s discovery, the EcoHealth Alliance was looking at other bat viruses, including in Yunnan, China, and sending them to the Wuhan Institute of Virology.

One such virus is RaTG13, also remarkably similar genetically to Sars-Cov-2. RaTG13 was first discovered in a horseshoe bat in a Yunnan mineshaft that the Chinese government denies researchers access to, according to Daily Mail.

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1 posted on 11/22/2021 9:05:24 AM PST by Red Badger
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To: Red Badger

“They also suggest that it might be possible that both the bat origin theory of the COVID-19 pandemic and the lab-leak theory could be simultaneously true.”

That’s been obvious since day one.


2 posted on 11/22/2021 9:13:37 AM PST by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: Red Badger

Why would anyone doing “bio-war” research team up with the Chinese to do it?


3 posted on 11/22/2021 9:13:37 AM PST by marron
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To: Red Badger

Almost immediately after the COVID breakout, China blamed the U.S.

We laughed. Maybe they were RIGHT! Scratch that. They WERE right.


4 posted on 11/22/2021 9:28:33 AM PST by faucetman (Just the facts, ma'am, Just the facts )
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To: Red Badger

China CCP working with Americans to reduce (eliminate most humans) from the planet, to SAVE it.


5 posted on 11/22/2021 9:31:09 AM PST by faucetman (Just the facts, ma'am, Just the facts )
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To: ifinnegan

Yes, it is possible......................


6 posted on 11/22/2021 9:32:45 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: marron

Because they are communists


7 posted on 11/22/2021 9:45:53 AM PST by Gary from Dayton (Scary unvaccinated American )
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To: marron

Maybe because it was illegal in their own country?


8 posted on 11/22/2021 9:49:52 AM PST by Madam Theophilus
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To: Red Badger

Sick...something is really sick in our liberal ‘elites’...


9 posted on 11/22/2021 9:51:15 AM PST by GOPJ (One man lying to himself is pathetic - - a culture lying to itself seeds it's own destruction.)
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To: Red Badger

I hope when we win back congress they go after Fauci and the rest of the crooks involved with what happened.


10 posted on 11/22/2021 9:55:13 AM PST by TonyM (Score Event)
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To: faucetman

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11 posted on 11/22/2021 10:02:27 AM PST by Taffini ( Mr. Pippen and Mr. Waffles do not approve and neither do I)
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To: ifinnegan

Yea, no time after Trump told cheez to get ready to pay they released it..
It has been a war plan and they have just started, they must accelerate, we now have taliban etc in good numbers here, etc etc..

They know the Republicans cannot get in power with the knowledge of the treason they committed..

We saw the media hurricane not totally work, then covid, then elections, now open borders and folk vaccinated dying at higher rates than the unvaccinated, there are more plans, and we have been very foolish..


12 posted on 11/22/2021 11:33:57 AM PST by aces (and )
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To: Red Badger

Ping


13 posted on 11/22/2021 12:37:17 PM PST by A Formerly Proud Canadian (Ceterum autem censeo Justinius True-dope-us esse delendam)
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