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However, more and more revelations emerged related to the wuhan institute of virology. >> at least three staff members were sickened early on. they were so sick, they had to go to the hospital. here in china theres not unusual given that theres no primary care system. still, to be hospitalized with an unknown respiratory illness, suggests this virus was spreading even in november in 2019 in wuhan. >> wuhan scientists deny this ever happened. but then reports of a massive pathogen database contai...

>> beijing has accused the u.s. of politicizing the pandemic, vehemently denying the possibility of a wuhan lab leak. >> the u.s. should invite w.h.o. experts to investigate fort dietrich. >> chinese officials call for the world health organization to investigate a lab leak at the u.s. army medical research institute in maryland. backed by an aggressive social media campaign directed from beijing. to be clear, there is zero evidence to support that notion. >> the politics of this have taken a li...

The dna is likely on her so that may or may not help in this situation. is there anything else they would be looking for? >> in any suspicious case you are always looking for trace evidence. dna may be one of the most essential components of that. you take fingernail clippings, maybe hair samples, looking for fibers, anything you can see on the body and fingernail clippings and other samples as necessary for dna. if it is her fiancé/boyfriend who did this they are known to associate with each o...

Concerns there is a lack of transparency. >> right. when i look at that database, it was simply a list of samples with sequences attached. most of which had been published, probably the vast majority by now so we knew what was in the data bases. >> if it was mostly out there and much of it published, why were they so concerned about it being hacked? >> i dont know. more importantly, people who think that that database has the covi-2. i doubt that. >> so help me god. >> congratulations, mr. presi...

>> there is a lot of smoke here, no definitive flame but database goes down. no sharing of samples of these potential lab workers who got sickened. no forensic analysis of the lab. it starts to sound like there wasnt a really definitive investigation of the lab leak theory. >> i think thats right. there is not a definitive investigation of the lab leak theory. >> will there be? >> it needs to follow evidence. if there is definitive evidence, that needs to be investigated. there is none yet. >> p...

>> wuhan scientists deny this ever happened but then, reports of a massive pathogen database with bad coronavirus entries just went offline. >> just a few months before the world becomes aware that there is this dangerous virus circulating in wuhan, the w.i.v. removes from the internet this catalog of 22,000 viral samples that it had been working on that it had been studying. >> what happened to the bat coronavirus database in september of 2019? >> they told us they were revising it and making i...

Life of its own. >> covid-19 spoke to us from geneva. >> one of the things that keeps coming back to you want science, evidence, data, the database of bat coronaviruses was taken down and blood samples from workers at the lab they dont have access to those. they cant do a forensics examination of the lab but if they dont giver the most basic data, how is it science driven? >> we cant extract something we dont have access to. this is true for china and sarscovi 2 and the next one, as well. >> the...

Being sold as food as wet markets in southern china. >> the chinese government began slaughtering the animals that spread the disease. about 10,000 cats will be destroyed. >> how had it gotten into civic cats? where did the first sars actually originate? well, virus hunters like dr. she sank lee set out to test a theory sars one came from bats. >> in some cases they would crawl on their bellies to get through the tight crevices where the bats are. they collected lots and lots of bat samples and ...

Monuments of isfahan presented a problem — because photography is in black and white, and their patterns are based on colour. so it was the idea to get paintings made of the tile work in isfahan. this exhibition has given us the opportunity to show some of these larger paintings for the first time in a very long time — where you have three of the samples of the interior domes of isfahan have been raised on huge mounts. they are only triangular shapes, because the design was repeated around t...

The time of maries murder, dna analysis was still in its infancy. those samples had never been tested. in 2004, detective seyler called john lewin, a prosecutor with the l. a. das office major crime division. lewin specializes in cold cases. >> they had collected originally the fingernail scrapings. they had collected the blood, and the detective had been unable to get the lab tested. so when i first got on the case i started trying to cash in favors at the crime lab to get it done. >> but a ten...