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Three Wuhan scientists 'world's first Covid patients when experiment went wrong'

A new investigation has claimed three Wuhan lab scientists researching Covid-19 were the first to test positive.

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Chinese scientist at centre of virus controversy denies lab leak theory

The Chinese scientist at the centre of theories that the coronavirus pandemic originated with a leak from her specialized lab in the city of Wuhan has denied her institution was to blame for the health disaster.

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Where did Covid-19 come from? Investigator foreshadows fresh clues

Lab TheoryThe lack of a clear pathway from bats to humans has stoked speculation -- refuted by Daszak and many other scientists -- that the virus might have escaped from the Wuhan Institute of Virology, a maximum bio-containment laboratory studying bat-borne coronaviruses.Scientists visited the lab and asked Shi Zhengli, who has collected and analyzed these viruses for more than a decade, about the research and the earliest known coronavirus cases.‘Whole Gamut’“We really have to cover the whole gamut of key lines of investigation," Daszak said. “To be fair to our hosts here in China, they’ve been doing the same for the last few months.

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WHO team in Wuhan says discussions open, meetings frank

One of the World Health Organization investigators looking for clues into the origin of the coronavirus in the central Chinese city of Wuhan said that the Chinese side has provided a high level of cooperation.

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Disturbing footage shows Wuhan scientists bitten by bats 2 years before Covid

coronaviruses, two years before the Covid-19 pandemic began. The video from 2017 features scientist Shi Zhengli, nicknamed "Batwoman," with her team as they try to find out more about the SARS virus.Scientists in the video have been branded "lax" for their laid-back approach to safety measures in the shocking footage.The now-horrifying scenes come just days after the global death toll from Covid-19 topped 2 million.

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Chinese coronavirus whistleblower 'would welcome' WHO probe into Wuhan lab-leak claims

Chinese scientist said she would "welcome" a probe into claims coronavirus leaked from her lab in the pandemic's epicentre Wuhan.Unsubstantiated claims suggest the virus began in the lab of Professor Shi Zhengli and her statement comes as a World Health Organization (WHO) team prepares to travel to Wuhan in January to begin its investigation into the origins of Covid-19.The fact Wuhan is now home to the world's leading coronavirus research facility, as well as being the first city to be ravaged by the killer virus, has fuelled speculation that the two things could be connected.Professor Shi won international acclaim for her discovery that the Sars outbreak, which killed more than 700 people in 2003, was caused by a virus that probably came

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China’s ‘bat woman’ has hew evidence her lab isn’t coronavirus source

Shi Zhengli, a Chinese virologist renowned for her work on viruses in bats, provided new evidence that her laboratory wasn’t the source of the global pandemic in research published in a scientific journal.The deputy director of the Wuhan Institute of Virology said the latest blood tests on miners, who became sick with a mysterious respiratory disease eight years ago after clearing bat feces, showed they didn’t have the virus that caused Covid-19, according to the South China Morning Post. The paper cited Shi’s findings that were published in the Nature journal this week.The serum samples were from four people who caught the disease after working in a copper mine in Yunnan province.

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Fighting COVID-19 vaccine fears, tracking the pandemic’s origin, and a new technique for peering under paint

Science Editor-in-Chief Holden Thorp joins host Sarah Crespi to discuss his editorial on preventing vaccine hesitancy during the coronavirus pandemic. Even before the current crisis, fear of vaccines had become a global problem, with the World Health Organization naming it as one of the top 10 worldwide health threats in 2019.

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‘Trump owes us an apology.’ Chinese scientist at the center of COVID-19 origin theories speaks out

Jon CohenScience’s COVID-19 reporting is supported by the Pulitzer Center and the Heising-Simons Foundation.The coronavirus pandemic has thrust virologist Shi Zhengli into a fierce spotlight. Shi, who’s been nicknamed “Bat Woman,” heads a group that studies bat coronaviruses at the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV), in the city in China where the pandemic began, and many have speculated that the virus that causes COVID-19 accidentally escaped from her lab—a theory promoted by U.S.

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Coronavirus like virus was sent to China's Wuhan in 2013: Report

China after six men who had been clearing out bat feces there contracted a severe pneumonia, the newspaper said.Three of them died and the most likely cause was a coronavirus transmitted from a bat, the Sunday Times reported, citing a medic whose supervisor worked in the emergency department that treated the men. The same mine in Yunnan province was subsequently studied by Shi Zhengli, an expert in SARS-like coronaviruses of bat origins at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.Shi, nicknamed “bat woman" for her expeditions in bat caves, described Covid-19 in a February 2020 paper, saying it was 96.2% similar to a coronavirus sample named RaTG13 obtained in Yunnan in 2013.

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China's 'Bat Woman' warns coronavirus is just tip of the iceberg

If we want to prevent human beings from suffering from the next pandemic, we must go in advance to learn of these unknown viruses carried by wild animals in nature and give early warnings, said Shi Zhengli, deputy director of Wuhan Institute of Virology

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Wuhan virus lab director says claims coronavirus leaked from facility are 'pure fiction'

The director of the labin China which has been at the centre of suspicion over the outbreak of coronavirus has dismissed claims the virus leaked from the facility.

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Wuhan lab ‘found universe of coronaviruses' which could cause future pandemic

A Wuhan-based scientist studying diseases in wild bats found a whole "universe" of coronaviruses in 15,000 samples, with some potentially having the ability to "jump" to humans.

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China's coronavirus whistleblower denies she's 'smuggling secret papers to the US'

A Chinese scientist who was in charge of a team researching deadly bat viruses at a lab in Wuhan has strongly denied claims she is defecting to the US in the wake of the global coronavirus pandemic.

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Coronavirus scientist studying bats for cure warns 'more outbreaks will happen'

A scientist researching the first cases of Covid-19 managed the incredible feat of unlocking the disease’s genetic code – but has warned the world is in a race to prevent any future outbreaks.

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'Bat Woman' scientist who could cure coronavirus chilling fear about where it came from

Shi Zhengli is the woman who could provide the world with a cure for the deadly coronavirus pandemic.

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China 'covered up Bat Woman coronavirus findings which could have slowed spread'

Chinese authorities have been accused of covering up the findings of a coronavirus scientists known as "Bat Woman" - with tens of thousands of lives lost as a result.

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China 'hid work of "Bat Woman" scientist who unlocked coronavirus gene'

China is accused of hiding the findings of a coronavirus expert - known as "Bat Woman" - after she quickly identified the genetic make-up of the new strain that has infected millions.

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