BOOOOOOOOM
The CCP is such a piece of shit.
Unexpected novel Merbecovirus discoveries in agricultural sequencing datasets from Wuhan, China
Daoyu Zhang, Adrian Jones, Yuri Deigin, Karl Sirotkin, Alejandro Sousa, Kevin McCairn
Our discoveries provide evidence of a significant level of secrecy, as well as the
presence of unpublished viral sequences and clones within various laboratories in
Wuhan, including the Wuhan Institute of Virology. This demonstrates the need for a
thorough forensic investigation into the various laboratories in Wuhan, especially into
unpublished and non-viral short-read sequencing datasets that originated from such
laboratories, in the ongoing investigation into the origins of SARS-CoV-2.
We further recommend a systematic data mining and
virus discovery program on past SRA datasets from China, particularly from plants
and other agricultural samples, which may reveal novel and unpublished viral
sequences from cross-contamination between published and unpublished samples, as
we have done here.
In this study we document the unexpected discovery of multiple coronaviruses and a BSL-3 pathogen in agricultural cotton and rice sequencing datasets. In particular, we have identified a novel HKU5-related Merbecovirus in a cotton dataset sequenced by the Huazhong Agricultural University in 2017. We have also found an infectious clone sequence containing a novel HKU4-related Merbecovirus related to MERS coronavirus in a rice dataset sequenced by the Huazhong Agricultural University in early 2020. Another HKU5-related Merbecovirus, as well as Japanese encephalitis virus, were identified in a cotton dataset sequenced by the Huazhong Agricultural University in 2018. An HKU3-related Betacoronavirus was found in a Mus musculus sequencing dataset from the Wuhan Institute of Virology in 2017. Finally, a SARS-WIV1-like Betacoronavirus was found in a rice dataset sequenced by the Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University in 2017. Using the contaminating reads we have extracted from the above datasets, we were able to assemble complete genomes of two novel coronaviruses which we disclose herein. In light of our findings, we raise concerns about biosafety protocol breaches, as indicated by our discovery of multiple dangerous human pathogens in agricultural sequencing laboratories in Wuhan and Fouzou City, China.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.01533
