NEW YORK - The World Health Organisation rebuked Chinese officials on Friday for withholding research that may link Covid-19’s origin to wild animals, asking why the data had not been made available three years ago and why it is now missing.
“These data could have – and should have – been shared three years ago,” WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said.According to the experts who are reviewing it, the research offers evidence that raccoon dogs – foxlike animals known to spread coronaviruses – had left behind DNA in the same place in the Wuhan market that genetic signatures of the new coronavirus also were discovered.
A French biologist discovered the genetic sequences in the database last week, and she and a team of colleagues began mining them for clues about the origins of the pandemic. “It’s just very unlikely to be seeing this much animal DNA, especially raccoon dog DNA, mixed in with viral samples, if it’s simply mostly human contamination,” Dr Cobey said.Questions remain about how the samples were collected, what precisely they contained, and why the evidence had disappeared.
But a number of virus experts not involved with the latest analysis said that what was known about the swabs gathered in the market buttressed the case that animals sold there had sparked the pandemic. But Dr Cobey added that an accumulation of evidence – relating to the clustering of human cases around the Wuhan market, the genetic diversity of viruses there and now the raccoon dog data – strengthened the case for a market origin.Even if it had been, the possibility would remain that another animal could have passed that virus to people, or even that someone infected with the virus could have transmitted it to a raccoon dog.
Source: Healthcare Press (healthcarepress.net)
straits_times C’mon, stop gaslighting the peasants. Its apparent to the scientific community its a lab leak. lol.
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