An expert claims coronavirus did leak from a laboratory in Wuhan and not from wildlife wet market.
In an interview with Sky News, Professor Clive Hamilton said: “The argument that the coronavirus emerged from the South China Seafood market just no longer stacks up.”
He said that the earliest cases of the deadly virus were in patients who had no contact with the Wuhan wet market.
“This has been demonstrated by top quality studies,” Professor Hamilton said. “So the idea that it originated in December sometime, usually late December, in this market, simply doesn’t stack up.
“The only other plausible explanation was that it was a leak from the Wuhan Institute of Virology.”
The hypothesis came from scientists in China and was all over the internet, said the professor.
He also said that internet users all over China searched for the woman believed to be patient zero. The woman worked at the Wuhan Institute of Virology and ‘seems to have disappeared off the face of the planet.”
Researchers had previously believed the virus jumped to an unidentified intermediary species from bats before humans contracted it at the wet market in Wuhan where wild animals are slaughtered for consumption.
The Wuhan Institute of Virology is located not far from the wet market. It researched a range of bat coronaviruses, said the professor.
“The potential is there for this extremely lethal virus to have escaped in some way,” Professor Hamilton, a long-time critic of Beijing, said.
He also mentioned that two Chinese scientists had written a highly regarded paper saying the virus came from a leak from the laboratory.
“There’s a very plausible hypothesis here that someone became infected in the laboratory, walked out and started infecting other people in Wuhan,” he expressed.
Many medical professionals also became skeptical of the first wet market explanation. Dr. John Campbell, a UK-based medical teacher, said there does not seem to have been an intermediary species between bats and humans.
“People thought it was pangolins at first but that doesn’t seem to be bearing out,” Dr. Campbell said, noting that it was a large coincidence that the outbreak originated so close to the Wuhan Virology Institute.
Dr. Chris Martenson, a US-based pathologist, also said a suspicious sequence of nucleotides in the RNA coding of the SARS-Cov-2 coronavirus appear to have been inserted. “None of the closest (viral) or even distant relatives have this site,” he said. “Those that do only have 40 percent of the same genome.”
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