Is the origin of Covid-19 food?
Since the outbreak of the Coronavirus epidemic, you have undoubtedly heard mentioning the hypothesis of the Wuhan laboratory as its possible origin.
In Wuhan, China, there is actually a Biosecurity laboratory in which special pathogens are tested to understand their degree of risk to humans, and in which “enhanced” versions of some viruses, including Coronavirus, have been tested.
Many believe that the cause of the epidemic was accidental: a possible “leak” of the virus produced in the laboratory outside.
Or even a malicious cause.
The willingness to infect people, by someone or some “organization”. ll which would also explain why the viral pandemic originated from Wuhan.
In fact, there is no evidence that this is the case.
This is primarily because the laboratory is part of a larger project of centers created for the purpose of studying strains of viruses that are lethal or potentially lethal on humans, according to a branch of scientific research that takes the name of “Gain of function” and is funded by various countries.
But also because in the last few days there has been evidence that suggests the opposite.
And that is, that the virus was already a known threat for years.
This is why it was also studied, in its variants, in the Wuhan laboratory.
The origin of Covid-19, of this form of Coronavirus-Sars that today claims victims, would in fact be food or environmental.
IS THE ORIGIN OF COVID-19 FOOD? THE EVIDENCE IN SUPPORT OF THIS HYPOTHESIS
The Wuhan laboratory would be born in 2004, in collaboration with France. But in 2006 and 2007 two studies were released that instead denounced some food and hygiene practices in use in some countries as dangerous for a possible spread of the Coronavirus among humans. In both studies, in fact, we talk about bats, and about the zoonotic origin of the viruses.
Both studies in the bibliography cite studies even many years earlier than the creation of the Wuhan laboratory.
The key to the puzzle is bats and other exotic animals. Bats are a known case of possible virus “spillover”, ie a virus that can pass from one species to another, in this case from an animal to a human species.
These are animals that are carriers of many bacteria and viruses.
In 2006 , a group of researchers identified as many as 66 viruses that came from bats, where the animal could be a vector of spread. Some of these, the researchers explained, could have been passed on to humans. The 2007 study examines the Coronavirus Sars, and the possibility that this passes from animals, especially bats, to humans.
But why so much attention to bats?
Because in China and not only there, but also in Thailand, bats are not only eaten, but their droppings are used as fertilizer. The animals are caught and sold in food markets.
Since the practice had already been denounced for years, and a research that appeared in Nature in recent weeks has ruled out (with many probabilities) that Covid-19 as we know it today comes from laboratories, the probabilities that the origin of this Coronavirus strain is food (or hygienic). And not a “flight” or other accident caused by the laboratory.
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