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"thousand miles away" in Yunnan (right on the border with Laos) is where the "Bat Woman" was sent to investigate an pneumonia oubreak with case fatality rate of 50% in 2012.

At the very minimum samples would've been brought back to WIV.

Were they manipulated/gain-of-function enhanced since?

I do not have enough back ground in bio to say, but what are the odds they'd just let samples sit and do nothing with them for years in a research lab? is that something they normally do?

"Lethal Pneumonia Cases in Mojiang Miners (2012)" https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpubh.2021.7021...

Shi Zheng-Li's research, 2017:

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/bat-cave-solves-m...




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