Posted on 02/21/2025 10:30:16 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Research was led by Shi Zhengli, a virologist known as the 'batwoman', who is best known for her work on coronaviruses at a lab in Wuhan
A Chinese team has found a new bat coronavirus that carries the risk of animal-to-human transmission because it uses the same human receptor as the virus that causes Covid-19.
The study was led by Shi Zhengli - a leading virologist known as the "batwoman" due to her extensive research on bat coronaviruses - at the Guangzhou Laboratory along with researchers from the Guangzhou Academy of Sciences, Wuhan University and the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
Shi is best known for her work at the Wuhan institute, which has been at the centre of the controversy about the origins of Covid, with one theory suggesting it came from a lab leak in the city.
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While there is still no consensus on the origin of the virus, some studies suggest it originated in bats and jumped to humans through an intermediate animal host. Shi has denied that the institute was to blame for the outbreak.
The latest discovery is a new lineage of the HKU5 coronavirus first identified in the Japanese pipistrelle bat in Hong Kong.
The new virus comes from the merbecovirus subgenus, which also includes the virus that causes Middle East respiratory syndrome (Mers).
The virus is able to bind to the human angiotensin converting enzyme (ACE2), the same receptor used by the Sars-CoV-2 virus, which causes Covid-19, to infect cells.
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Did Quackony Fauxi “help” with this “discovery?”
Is this the “Kill Switch” that will decimate all those who have the mRNA poison?
FROM THE DAILY MAIL:
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In scenes eerily reminiscent of the beginnings of Covid, researchers at the infamous Wuhan Institute of Virology detected the new strain living within bats.
HKU5-CoV-2 is strikingly similar to the pandemic virus, sparking fears that history could repeat itself just two years after the worst was declared over.
The new virus is even closer related to MERS, a deadlier type of coronavirus that kills up to a third of people it infects. Virologist Shi Zhengli, known as ‘Batwoman’ for her work on coronaviruses, led the discovery, published in a top scientific journal.
The new HKU5-CoV-2 is a coronavirus belonging to the merbecovirus family of pathogens. Merbecoviruses have been detected in minks and pangolins - the animal believed to be the intermediary for Covid between bats and humans. This, the scientists wrote, ‘suggests frequent cross-species transmission of these viruses between bats and other animal species.’
They added: ‘This study reveals a distinct lineage of HKU5-CoVs in bats that efficiently use human [cells] and underscores their potential zoonotic risk.’ HKU5-CoV viruses were first detected in bats in 2006, but the new data suggests HKU5-CoV-2 has a ‘higher potential for interspecies infection’ than others. However, the potential for HKU5-CoV-2 to spill over to humans ‘remains to be investigated.’
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The research was conducted by the Wuhan Institute of Virology, which is at the center of the lab-leak theory, which claims Covid-19 was manufactured in a Chinese lab and accidentally leaked to the public.
I still believe the Chinese ar looking for a virus that would be fatal to everyone except Chinese.
That's more probably than my theory that they're doing genetic research to increase their vertical visual range.
I wish they would stop looking.
“Accidentally” my tush. Nothing is accidental when it involves Fauxi.
To me, this sounds like a threat to Trump to back off.
WEIRD how they didn’t find it during biden’s sleepy time term
OGNTSA!
Gee, where did they “find” it?
Is that why Fauci is so quiet? Working with China to cause a crisis.
Wow the Chinese finding a new bat virus is like me discovering last night’s leftover homemade marinara in my fridge.
Through gain of function modification just like Covid-19 was?
And Trump should warn them that if they release another bioengineered virus of any kind, especially one with a high fatality rate, the U.S. will consider that an existential threat and will destroy the CCP government and its entire military through nuclear attack.
We can’t play around any longer with this threat. Don’t let COVID fool you, the CCP is working on FAR more dangerous viruses, and they MUST be placed on notice in the most blunt way possible.
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