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<blockquote data-quote="Old Man Jingles" data-source="post: 4583913" data-attributes="member: 18222"><p><a href="https://nypost.com/2020/08/15/covid-19-first-appeared-in-chinese-miners-in-2012-scientists/?utm_source=maropost&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nypevening&utm_content=20200815&tpcc=evening_update&mpweb=755-9039654-720572652" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: 26px"><strong>COVID-19 first appeared in a group of Chinese miners in 2012, scientists say</strong></span></a></p><p></p><p>The coronavirus may not have <a href="https://nypost.com/2020/08/03/who-completes-part-of-probe-into-origins-of-coronavirus-in-china/" target="_blank">originated at a Wuhan wet market</a> last year but 1,000 miles away in 2012 — deep in a Chinese mineshaft where workers came down with a mysterious, pneumonia-like illness after being exposed to bats. In April 2012, six miners in the Mojiang mine in southwestern China’s Yunnan province fell ill after spending more than 14 days removing bat feces. Three eventually died.</p><p></p><p>“We feel that it’s being circulated underground in the scientific community,” Latham said. “People think it has merit, but they are reluctant to go public because the coronavirus has become very politicized.”</p><p></p><p>Virologist Jonathan Latham and molecular biologist Allison Wilson, both of the non-profit Bioscience Resource Project in Ithaca, arrived at their finding after translating a 66-page master’s thesis from the Chinese medical doctor who treated the miners and sent their tissue samples to the Wuhan Institute of Virology for testing.</p><p>“The evidence it contains has led us to reconsider everything we thought we knew about the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic,” Latham and Wilson wrote <a href="https://www.independentsciencenews.org/commentaries/a-proposed-origin-for-sars-cov-2-and-the-covid-19-pandemic/" target="_blank">in an article published July 15</a> on their website, “Independent Science News.”</p><p>Latham told The Post that the coronavirus “almost certainly escaped” from the Wuhan lab.</p><p></p><p>Although scientists at the Wuhan lab had collected coronavirus samples from bats at the same mine, they missed the 2012 connection. </p><p>In fact, Shi Zhengli, a virologist at the Wuhan lab who is known as “the batwoman” for her extensive research into bat-derived coronaviruses, told Scientific American in June that the miners had died from a fungal infection, “although it would have been only a matter of time before they caught the coronaviruses if the mine had not been promptly shut.” </p><p></p><p><strong>“The mine shaft stunk like hell,” Shi told the magazine. “Bat guano, covered in fungus, littered the cave.”</strong></p><p><img src="https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/08/BATCAVE-1.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=615" alt="BATCAVE-1" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="width: 923px" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Old Man Jingles, post: 4583913, member: 18222"] [URL='https://nypost.com/2020/08/15/covid-19-first-appeared-in-chinese-miners-in-2012-scientists/?utm_source=maropost&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nypevening&utm_content=20200815&tpcc=evening_update&mpweb=755-9039654-720572652'][SIZE=7][B]COVID-19 first appeared in a group of Chinese miners in 2012, scientists say[/B][/SIZE][/URL] The coronavirus may not have [URL='https://nypost.com/2020/08/03/who-completes-part-of-probe-into-origins-of-coronavirus-in-china/']originated at a Wuhan wet market[/URL] last year but 1,000 miles away in 2012 — deep in a Chinese mineshaft where workers came down with a mysterious, pneumonia-like illness after being exposed to bats. In April 2012, six miners in the Mojiang mine in southwestern China’s Yunnan province fell ill after spending more than 14 days removing bat feces. Three eventually died. “We feel that it’s being circulated underground in the scientific community,” Latham said. “People think it has merit, but they are reluctant to go public because the coronavirus has become very politicized.” Virologist Jonathan Latham and molecular biologist Allison Wilson, both of the non-profit Bioscience Resource Project in Ithaca, arrived at their finding after translating a 66-page master’s thesis from the Chinese medical doctor who treated the miners and sent their tissue samples to the Wuhan Institute of Virology for testing. “The evidence it contains has led us to reconsider everything we thought we knew about the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic,” Latham and Wilson wrote [URL='https://www.independentsciencenews.org/commentaries/a-proposed-origin-for-sars-cov-2-and-the-covid-19-pandemic/']in an article published July 15[/URL] on their website, “Independent Science News.” Latham told The Post that the coronavirus “almost certainly escaped” from the Wuhan lab. Although scientists at the Wuhan lab had collected coronavirus samples from bats at the same mine, they missed the 2012 connection. In fact, Shi Zhengli, a virologist at the Wuhan lab who is known as “the batwoman” for her extensive research into bat-derived coronaviruses, told Scientific American in June that the miners had died from a fungal infection, “although it would have been only a matter of time before they caught the coronaviruses if the mine had not been promptly shut.” [B]“The mine shaft stunk like hell,” Shi told the magazine. “Bat guano, covered in fungus, littered the cave.”[/B] [IMG width="923px" alt="BATCAVE-1"]https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/08/BATCAVE-1.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=615[/IMG] [/QUOTE]
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