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Transmitted to a human and that could be natural but still in a lab which was botched being able to handle it. i hate that picture of that bat. >> everyone is going to have nightmares. >> that puts a face on it. great to have you with us, thanks for breaking the news. amid a pause in us funding to the world health organization there are new accusations that the who is trafficking cuban doctors being sent around the doct you with us. the allegation is cuban doctors are being sent around the world work in different places, the miami herald had an interesting take on this, they did a piece that i...

Post story that us officials going to the wuhan lab a few years ago and raising concerns through the embassy in beijing and the state department, warnings they were not living up to standards in the wuhan lab. we've confirmed washington post reporting about those cables and mike pompeo referenced them in that interview with martha. >> to be clear they don't think this was something intended as a bio weapon to harm. do you believe it was naturally occurring? they were simply trying to manipulate it or find ways to control it. >> we are doing that from everybody on the record, chairman of the jo...

Wildlife. these pathogens emerge from wildlife. >> reporter: one of those scientists is one of the most preeminent virus hunters in the world. >> because we've been doing this work in china for ten years, we have a whole series of genetic sequences, advances we've found with our colleagues. so when they get a new virus because of covid-19, they could compare it to what they had seen in bats so they new straightaway this is likely a bat origin virus. >> because it has the 96% comparison rate to what was in a bat, that's why you're saying it's very, very likely this did come from a bat although ...

With our colleagues. so they could compare what they see in people with what they see in bats. this is likely a bat origin virus. >> because it has that 96% comparison rate to what was actually in a bat, that's why you're saying it's very, very likely this did come from a bat, although we don't know where this strain actually came from? >> we're very confident that the origin of covid-19 is in bats. we just don't know where exactly it originated. that's what we need to do now. >> reporter: it is a genetic detective story. researcher will trace the virus that is killing thousands to a yet to be...

Suggested that this bat was sold there. but let's be clear. the only actual analysis of that question that we are aware of is in this paper. these scientists interviewed almost 60 people, 59 of them who frequented the wuhan wet market and they confirmed there were no horseshoe bats for sale there. period so that raises the question, rated the virus carrying bats come from? the paper says this. we screened the area around the market and identified two laboratories conducting research on bat coronavirus. within a few yards of the wet market is something called the wuhan center for disease contro...