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Origin of COVID

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17 March 2023, 09:13 AM
Axtremus
Origin of COVID
https://www.theatlantic.com/sc...ket-lab-leak/673390/

quote:
… new analysis of genetic samples from China appears to link the pandemic’s origin to raccoon dogs.


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17 March 2023, 09:48 AM
wtg
Another piece of the puzzle, but my immediate thought was "Where did the raccoon dog get it? From another animal, or from a person infected by a lab-leaked virus?"

And the investigation continues...


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17 March 2023, 04:33 PM
Nina
Or a mutation on a pre-existing SARS virus
21 March 2023, 09:06 PM
QuirtEvans
quote:
“This isn’t an infected animal,” said Joel Wertheim, an evolutionary biologist at the University of California, San Diego and a co-author of the report, referring to the new genetic data. “But this is the closest you can get without having the animal in front of you.”


quote:
Frederic Bushman, a microbiologist at the University of Pennsylvania who also specializes in sequencing techniques, agreed that the report’s methods were sound.

“I think the simplest explanation is that it’s an infected raccoon dog,” he said. “I don’t think it’s absolute proof.”



https://www.nytimes.com/2023/0...tw-nytimes&smtyp=cur
07 April 2023, 12:02 AM
QuirtEvans
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-65204169
07 April 2023, 07:31 PM
Daniel
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