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It is in Maryland and the Chinese are blowing smoke! They are trying to divert attention from the University in Australia and the University in North Carolina, both of whom received funds from CHINA and BOTH had the same woman, Professor Zhengli Shi of Key Laboratory of Special Pathogens and Biosafety, Wuhan Institute of Virology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, China.

Botao Xiao is the lead author of a paper from South China University of Technology:
The possible origins of 2019-nCoV coronavirus (now also withdrawn) and no doubt one of the targets of Shi’s vitrol.

”Shi now tells those who share the concerns she once had [of the virus escaping from her lab] to “shut their stinking mouths.”

….China’s top virologist on bat-borne viruses, Shi Zhengli, has sworn on her life that the virus did not leak from her Wuhan lab, saying that its spread was “nature punishing the human race for keeping uncivilized living habits.”….

GEE, isn’t it interesting that Shi and the Pope shares similar views….

Quick summary:

Uncanny similarity of unique inserts in the 2019-nCoV spike protein to HIV-1 gp120 and Gag

Abstract

…..We found 4 insertions in the spike glycoprotein (S) which are unique to the 2019-nCoV and are not present in other coronaviruses. <b>Importantly, amino acid residues in all the 4 inserts have identity or similarity to those in the HIV-1</b> gp120 or HIV-1 Gag. Interestingly, despite the inserts being discontinuous on the primary amino acid sequence, 3D-modelling of the 2019-nCoV suggests that they converge to constitute the receptor binding site. <b>The finding of 4 unique inserts in the 2019-nCoV, all of which have identity similarity to amino acid residues in key structural proteins of HIV-1 is unlikely to be fortuitous in nature.</b> This work provides yet unknown insights on 2019-nCoV and sheds light on the evolution and pathogenicity of this virus with important implications for diagnosis of this virus….

This was the first of several reports that the virus was manmade. I have all of them if someone wants the list.

Interviews with Dr Boyle, author of the Biological Weapons Anti-Terrorism Act of 1989

This is an interview of Dr Boyle by Alex Jones. Luckily there is a transcript.

And there is a second , later interview with Dr Boyle:
US Biowarfare Act Author: Studies Confirm Coronavirus Weaponized

This second article has links to the Scientific Papers that Dr Boyle uses as evidence and to this interview (36 minutes)

Professor Zhengli Shi is an author of BOTH of these papers. One in Australia and the second in North Carolina (UNC) this is before she got her very own lab in China built with the help of Fauci and Bill Gates.

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First Paper:
Published: June 22, 2010

Angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (ACE2) proteins of different bat species confer variable susceptibility to SARS-CoV entry
The authors are certainly interesting. Sure sound like Aussie names don’t they?

1. State Key Laboratory of Virology, Wuhan Institute of Virology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Wuhan, Hubei, China

• Yuxuan Hou
• , Cheng Peng
• , Yan Li
• , Zhenggang Han
•   Zhengli Shi

1. Australian Animal Health Laboratory, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization Livestock Industries, PO Bag 24, Geelong, VIC, 3220, Australia

• Meng Yu
•  & Lin-Fa Wang

1. Department of Pharmacology, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, MN, 55455, USA

• Fang Li

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Second Paper:
Electronically Published on November 8, 2015

A SARS-like cluster of circulating bat coronaviruses shows potential for human emergence.

And LOOK who funded it! The National Institutes of Health under Fauci AND the State Key Program for Basic Research Grants from the Chinese Ministry of Science. Fauci not only funded the initial research but indicated interest in funding further research.

Abstract

The emergence of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS-CoV) and Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS)-CoV underscores the threat of cross-species transmission events leading to outbreaks in humans. Here we examine the disease potential of a SARS-like virus, SHC014-CoV, which is currently circulating in Chinese horseshoe bat populations. Using the SARS-CoV reverse genetics system, we generated and characterized a chimeric virus expressing the spike of bat coronavirus SHC014 in a mouse-adapted SARS-CoV backbone. The results indicate that group 2b viruses encoding the SHC014 spike in a wild-type backbone can efficiently use multiple orthologs of the SARS receptor human angiotensin converting enzyme II (ACE2), replicate efficiently in primary human airway cells and achieve in vitro titers equivalent to epidemic strains of SARS-CoV.<

Additionally, in vivo experiments demonstrate replication of the chimeric virus in mouse lung with notable pathogenesis. Evaluation of available SARS-based immune-therapeutic and prophylactic modalities revealed poor efficacy; both monoclonal antibody and vaccine approaches failed to neutralize and protect from infection with CoVs using the novel spike protein. On the basis of these findings, we synthetically re-derived an infectious full-length SHC014 recombinant virus and demonstrate robust viral replication both in vitro and in vivo. Our work suggests a potential risk of SARS-CoV re-emergence from viruses currently circulating in bat populations.

When you have to lure ’em in with bacon to get them to accept your ring….