From LegalInsurrection:
New Bat Coronavirus ‘Discovered’ Poses ‘High Risk of Spillover to Humans’
Dr. Shi Zhengli announced her team has ‘identified’ a new virus with similar infection pathway as covid pathogen....
As a reminder, Shi denied that the Wuhan Institute of Virology was the source of the contagion and minimized the number of bats being studied at the facility. Video demonstrated that the institute had a large number of bats, and proper biosafety protocol was not being followed....
The team’s findings were published in Cell, highlighting that it posed a ‘high risk of spillover to humans, either through direct transmission or facilitated by intermediate hosts.’ There is even more concerning news. The new virus behaves more like MERS, with an infection fatality rate of 35%. This contrasts starkly with COVID-19, with a current infection fatality rate of 0.23%.
my thought? Once the covid virus (especially the omicron varient) went through the population, it is possible that this bioengineered virus could combine with the native virus.
given the biosafety issues, one does wonder if this will soon escape the lab.
And didn't the bat lady change labs?
this article from PeopleNews states the good bat doctor has moved to a different laboratory.
November 4, 2024 - Shi Zhengli, a key figure from the Wuhan Institute of Virology suspected of leaking the COVID-19 virus, has moved south to take a position at a laboratory in Guangzhou.
According to a report by Chinese media outlet The Paper on November 3, Shi Zhengli, a long-time researcher at the Wuhan Institute of Virology under the Chinese Academy of Sciences, has now taken up a position at the Guangzhou Laboratory.
]n October 31, Wuhan University’s official website announced a news item titled “Yan Huan Team Publishes Paper in Nature Proposing Artificially Designed Virus Receptor for the First Time.” The international scientific journal Nature published a paper on October 30 titled “Design of Customized Coronavirus Receptors.” In the opening paragraph introducing the research team, Shi Zhengli’s name (Zheng Li Shi) was clearly listed.
As a co-corresponding author of the paper, Shi Zhengli is now affiliated with both the Guangzhou Laboratory and the Wuhan Institute of Virology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
The resume information published on the Guangzhou Laboratory’s website shows that since July 1990, Shi Zhengli has worked at the Wuhan Institute of Virology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. She has held roles as a research intern, assistant researcher, associate researcher, and was promoted to researcher in October 2000.
In May 2024, she transferred to the Guangzhou Laboratory as a researcher. The Guangzhou Laboratory was officially established in May 2021, with its research and clinical campuses located on Guangzhou International Bio Island and Datan Sha Island, respectively. The lab is directed by Zhong Nanshan, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering.
Previously, Shi Zhengli conducted research on bat coronaviruses and cross-species infections at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, as well as studies on enhancing virus functionality. Since the COVID-19 outbreak in Wuhan at the end of 2019, the Wuhan Institute of Virology has faced widespread suspicion of a virus leak that caused the global pandemic. Even after three years of the pandemic, fear lingers, and the virus remains present, while new dangers seem to be lurking. Since the beginning of this year, COVID-19 cases in China have been rising, and "unknown pneumonia prevention drills" have been held frequently across the country, with the reappearance of "Big Whites" (protective-suit-clad officials) triggering memories of fear among citizens. Some experts believe these drills are actually aimed at COVID-19, with “unknown pneumonia” simply being a different name, though they do not rule out that authorities may be aware of a new virus. In July last year, Shi Zhengli, then head of the Emerging Infectious Diseases Research Center at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, suddenly warned in a paper that another pandemic caused by coronaviruses was "very likely" to occur.
Former Deputy Director of Taiwan’s Health Department Li Longteng commented to The Epoch Times that Shi Zhengli likely knew something and therefore could predict a recurrence. "If they are creating (coronaviruses), there would be no outbreak unless they release them," he said. Qin Peng, a political and economic analyst based in the U.S., believes that the global COVID-19 pandemic was originally suspected to be caused by the CCP’s lab transmission and the CCP’s deliberate inaction, with Shi Zhengli’s warning being merely a light caution and not a solution to the problem.
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