kemmer wrote:
The v***s came from the live animal market in W***n.
At one point, I did believe it came from the wet markets, I do not believe it any longer. I have read everything I can find and even some Aisian blogs. They seem to agree that China's patient zero was a lab worker who has since "disappeared."
A memo from the Chinese Ministry of Science and Technology is seen as a tacit admission that some kind of incident may have occurred at the W***n lab. The ministry issued a directive mandating more stringent handling of v***ses and bioagents by all labs and research institutes. The document alluded to the slack oversight and management rampant at some facilities, and stressed that protection and decontamination must be beefed up now that more labs across the nation are intensifying their efforts to develop medicines to treat it and a v*****e to prevent it.
https://asiatimes.com/2020/02/c****av***s-lab-leakage-rumors-spreadingAnother Asian source explains, after the 2003 SARS epidemic, the government of China initiated a plan to construct a national high-level biosafety laboratory system to prepare for and respond to future infectious disease outbreaks.
This led to the establishment of the Biosafety Level 4 laboratory -- the W***n National Biosafety Laboratory (Level 4). The move was part of a plan to build between five and seven biosafety level-4 (BSL-4) labs across the Chinese mainland by 2025.
Laboratories are classified into biocontainment levels 1 to 4, depending on the pathogenicity of microbes investigated. Biosafety Level 4 (BSL-4) laboratories investigate the most dangerous pathogens and have maximum biocontainment levels.
Over the last two decades, numerous infectious diseases, including Ebola, Marburg Hemorrhagic Fever, Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever, Lassa Fever, SARS, Avian Influenza A (H5N1), Rift Valley Fever, and Nipah and Hendra v***l diseases, have emerged and re-emerged, posing serious threats to public health.
Within the framework of the Sino-French Cooperation Agreement on Emerging Infectious Diseases Prevention and Control, signed in October 2004, China constructed its first BSL-4 laboratory in 2015 in W***n.
From the lab's website: "In 2003, SARS v***s broke out in our country, the state and the Chinese Academy of Sciences promoted the prevention and control of newly emerging diseases to a new strategic height, W***n Institute of V******y adjusted the discipline layout in a timely manner, on the one hand it was to have the advantage integration for the traditional preponderant disciplines such as insect v******y, aquatic animal v******y, biological control, analysis of biotechnology etc.; on the other hand, through the training and the introduction of talents, it was to lay out a series of medical v***s-related discipline groups, engaged in the
researches of HIV, influenza v***s, hepatitis v***s, tumor v***s and zoonotic v***s and v***s replication and antiv***l drugs etc. In 2004, the Chinese and French governments signed a cooperation agreement on fighting and preventing new diseases, stressing the active cooperation between China and France in the construction of high-level biosafety laboratories and the system construction of biosafety laws and regulations etc."
https://www.amazon.com/b/ref=lp_2858778011_nav_em_t1_0_4_5_1__aiv?rh=i%3ainstant-video%2cn%3a2858778011&ie=utf8&node=2858778011It would also seem that research on bats was taking place at this lab. See abstract titled
Bat origin of human c****av***ses. Virol J., December, 2016...."Moreover, intermediate hosts are believed to play an important role in the t***smission and emergence of these c****av***ses from bats to humans. Understanding the bat origin of human c****av***ses is helpful for the prediction and prevention of another p******c emergence in the future." Notice the date.
https://www.amazon.com/b/ref=lp_2858778011_nav_em_t1_0_4_5_1__aiv?rh=i%3ainstant-video%2cn%3a2858778011&ie=utf8&node=2858778011Do take some time on the list provided, china has been aware of the c****av***s, C****-**, for years.
So, did China make the c****av***s....probably as they tried to understand how the bat v***s crossed over to human. Did they intentionally release it on their own people, probably not.