10-06-2020, 10:41 PM
(This post was last modified: 10-07-2020, 01:28 AM by Michigan Swamp Buck.
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I've found a reference to the 5 year research period, it supposedly started in 2002, likely right after the November outbreak. They found corona virus elements from different viral strains that matched the SARS virus that infected humans in 2002. They didn't find the exact virus, but the different viral parts were spread though out the samples leading them to believe that it came from that bat population. I'm just not sure if that conclusion was made in 2007 or in 2017 when that particular article in Scientific American was published.
I'm going to have to say that the 2005 timeline entry, "Shi Zhengli and colleagues found that bats are the natural reservoir of SARS-like coronaviruses" from Wikipedia is incorrect and should be in 2007. In 2008, bat lady was doing gain of function studies on the virus they believed had caused the original infection, which is strange if they already had samples that had infected people as there would be no need to make them infect human tissues.
It's seems that China's scientists had little interest in bats when the first joint US/China research into bats occurred in 1988. After a later joint project occurred in 1990, China's bat research started taking off. It is interesting to note that the Wuhan Institute begin in 1958 studying agricultural microbiology and viruses. Then it began to include human virology research in 2002, the same year that SARS cropped up. Then in 2003, China built it's first biosafety level 4 lab at the Wuhan Institute of Virology. The institute then went on to specialized in human pathogens over the years since.
I'm going to have to say that the 2005 timeline entry, "Shi Zhengli and colleagues found that bats are the natural reservoir of SARS-like coronaviruses" from Wikipedia is incorrect and should be in 2007. In 2008, bat lady was doing gain of function studies on the virus they believed had caused the original infection, which is strange if they already had samples that had infected people as there would be no need to make them infect human tissues.
It's seems that China's scientists had little interest in bats when the first joint US/China research into bats occurred in 1988. After a later joint project occurred in 1990, China's bat research started taking off. It is interesting to note that the Wuhan Institute begin in 1958 studying agricultural microbiology and viruses. Then it began to include human virology research in 2002, the same year that SARS cropped up. Then in 2003, China built it's first biosafety level 4 lab at the Wuhan Institute of Virology. The institute then went on to specialized in human pathogens over the years since.