Fifteen months after the global pandemic officially began, it s still unclear how it originated – and a group of top American scientists is eager for answers.
In a letter in the current issue of the journal Science, 18 infectious disease experts, immunologists and epidemiologists joined a global call for more information about the earliest days of the outbreak. There still isn t enough known, they said, to determine whether the coronavirus jumped directly from animals to people or whether it was released from a research laboratory in China.
The lack of information, they said, feeds conspiracy theories and prevents scientists and policymakers from taking steps to prevent the next deadly pandemic.
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Covid a Chinese biological weapon: US, UK scientists demand fresh probe to unveil mysteries
The novel coronavirus that apparently originated in China has already claimed the lives of more than 3.24 million people worldwide
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It was in late 2019 that the first case of Covid infection was detected in Wuhan, China. At that time, no medical experts in the world would have predicted that this viral infection will emerge as a global pandemic. Ever since the day of the pandemic outbreak, several conspiracy theorists and some leading medical experts have been claiming that coronavirus could be actually a Chinese bioweapon that accidentally escaped the Wuhan virological institute. As the mystery surrounding the origin of Covid looms up, a team of scientists from the United States and the United Kingdom has demanded a fresh probe into Wuhan lab leak theory.
Did Covid-19 virus leak from a Chinese lab? 18 top global scientists seek fresh answers
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New Delhi, May 15: Suspicion that the Covid-19 virus could have resulted from a laboratory leak in China refuses to die down, following a fresh demand by a group of eminent scientists for further investigations to determine the origin of the deadly disease.
The call for a further probe by 18 leading scientists follows the discovery of a Chinese military paper, which discusses the leading role of bioweapons in case a third world war was to be fought in the future. The publication of the research paper has raised legitimate doubts that China may have been developing bioweapons, which may have accidentally escaped from the Wuhan Institute of Virology a stone s throw from the wet market where the virus was apparently found in bats.
âBat ladyâ hits out at Wuhan virus claims The Chinese scientist dubbed the Bat Lady has rejected fresh claims that COVID-19 may have escaped from her lab in Wuhan.
Health by Samantha Maiden 14th May 2021 11:07 AM The chief scientist for emerging disease at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, Bat Lady Dr Shi Zhengli has rejected fresh claims COVID-19 may have escaped from her lab as sad and not acceptable . A group of 18 scientists including one of the world s foremost coronavirus researchers has reignited the debate over whether COVID-19 escaped from a Wuhan lab overnight. Warning there was not enough evidence to rule the option out, the group wrote to the prestigious Science magazine urging further investigation into the origins of the COVID-19 strain responsible for the global pandemic.