Bat Vectors
Time to harvest my posts from the past 18 months on bat migration and SARS-CoV-2
The latest distraction in the Covid19 news cycle is the ‘breaking report’ that the SARS-CoV-2 virus was engineered to be contagious in humans and somehow ‘released’ from the Wuhan Institute bat coronavirus research lab, possibly via live bats that escaped or bit and infected humans. The Big Brother censors of LinkedIn, Twitter and FaceBook are finally allowing posts on the topic, after supressing the info for at least a year. [see Feb 2020 article on Fauci telephone call]. So let’s look at the promulgated story (A) versus the shocking! just uncovered, intentional/accidental plot to launch the viral pandemic (B).
(A) Natural spread of corona viruses
Corona viruses such as SARS-1 and MERS, hit the global news in early 2000’s. Lots of studies looking at zoonotic origins, settled on bats and dromedary camels. So in early 2020 I looked at the hot spots of SARS-CoV-2 and compared them to the winter migration destinations for horseshoe bats originating in the areas where the bat pneumonia was found in the miners.
The greater horseshoe bat (Rhinolophus ferrumequinum) is a relatively large insectivorous bat and has a vast distribution range from western Palearctic to eastern Asia. R. ferrumequinum is distributed in southern Europe and northern Africa through the Mediterranean Sea including all central European islands. Toward the east, it is distributed in the Middle East to the Caucasus up to China, Korea, and Japan. - DOI: 10.22120/jwb.2019.102092.1053
Italy was an early epicenter thought to be centered near Milan, an international airport. But Italy is a well known winter site for the horseshoe bats.
Iran was also hit hard by Covid19 cases early on, though information was difficult to confirm and update from that islamic revolutionary led country. Bat migration patterns clearly do extend into Iran.
There are also many papers discussing theories hypothesizing that the East to West difference in severity of ‘pandemic’ was due to seasonality and climate conditions (humidity, temperature, sunshine). But the areas of low disease also coincided with bat migration - areas of the world that are routinely exposed to bats and their usual panoply of coronaviruses and thus leaving behind herd immunity in the endogenous human population. Mediterranean Northern Africa, is a particular example.
(B) Un-Natural spread of SARS-COV-2
The Gain-of-Function (GoF) studies in bat corona viruses was published way way back in 2015 [see REFs]; well funded by Fauci’s NIAID and others [Google]. This included the transgenetic hybrid human mice strains upon which to test the viruses. All was out in plain sight to the academic /countermeasures/emerging infectious diseases community, for many years.
Ralph Baric, an infectious-disease researcher at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, last week (November 9) published a study on his team’s efforts to engineer a virus with the surface protein of the SHC014 coronavirus, found in horseshoe bats in China, and the backbone of one that causes human-like severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) in mice. The hybrid virus could infect human airway cells and caused disease in mice, according to the team’s results, which were published in Nature Medicine.
The results demonstrate the ability of the SHC014 surface protein to bind and infect human cells, validating concerns that this virus—or other coronaviruses found in bat species—may be capable of making the leap to people without first evolving in an intermediate host, Nature reported. They also reignite a debate about whether that information justifies the risk of such work, known as gain-of-function research. “If the [new] virus escaped, nobody could predict the trajectory,” Simon Wain-Hobson, a virologist at the Pasteur Institute in Paris, told Nature. - Jef Akst, Scientist Nov 16, 2015
Wuhan Institute of Virology obtained “all the genes to make a SARS coronavirus similar to the epidemic strain,” according to a Nov 2017 report by Science News.
However, I submit to the reader, that both versions of this bat virus story are merely distractions from more important stories. Such as, the US blood supply samples show high affinity specific titers of mature immune response antibodies as early as August 2019. And, the CDC laboratory manufacturing diagnostic test kits deliberately distributed contaminated kits across the country in January-February 2020 when there was only one site of infection in Washington state. And, the PCR diagnostic test mandated by WHO, CDC, NIH, FDA was deliberately created to result in 99% FALSE POSITIVES. These were the origins of the fake data and the fake pandemic that fueled the unlawful lockdowns, shutdowns and mandated masking. These events prove intentional efforts to create a global crisis and tremendous human hardship.
Finding out how THAT was allowed to happen should be our TOP priority.
REFERENCES
Coronavirus first appeared in Chinese miners back in 2012 and may not have come from Wuhan market, scientists say https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/12413978/coronavirus-first-appeared-in-chinese-miners/
Lethal Pneumonia Cases in Mojiang Miners (2012) and the Mineshaft Could Provide Important Clues to the Origin of SARS-CoV-2. Front. Public Health, 20 October 2020 https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2020.581569
'I remember it very well': Dr. Fauci describes a secret 2020 meeting to talk about COVID origins A 2020 call appears to have played a key role in shaping views of scientists who contributed to shutting down talk of whether a lab leak caused COVID. https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2021/06/17/covid-19-fauci-lab-leaks-wuhan-china-origins/7737494002/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24184965/ Detection of Coronaviruses in Bats of Various Species in Italy Viruses 2013, 5, 2679-2689; doi:10.3390/v5112679
Potential geographic distribution and habitat suitability of the greater horseshoe bat, Rhinolophus ferrumequinum (Chiroptera: Rhinolophidae) in Iran. Journal of Wildlife and Biodiversity 3(2): 40-51(2019) DOI: 10.22120/jwb.2019.102092.1053
Manchery et al…., Zhengli-Li Shi, Ralph S Baric. “A SARS-like cluster of circulating bat coronaviruses shows potential for human emergence” Nature Medicine 21(12) p1508 Dec 2015
The Scientist, November 16, 2015 “Lab-Made Coronavirus Triggers Debate. The creation of a chimeric SARS-like virus has scientists discussing the risks of gain-of-function research.” https://www.the-scientist.com/news-opinion/lab-made-coronavirus-triggers-debate-34502
Wuhan Lab Found All Genes To Recreate ‘Epidemic Strain’ Of Coronavirus in 2017 https://thenationalpulse.com/news/wuhan-found-genes-to-make-epidemic-coronavirus/
CDC’s failed coronavirus tests were tainted with coronavirus, feds confirm. A federal investigation found CDC researchers not following protocol. https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/04/cdcs-failed-coronavirus-tests-were-tainted-with-coronavirus-feds-confirm/
CDC Report: Officials Knew Coronavirus Test Was Flawed But Released It Anyway https://www.npr.org/2020/11/06/929078678/cdc-report-officials-knew-coronavirus-test-was-flawed-but-released-it-anyway
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