Wuhan and US scientists were planning to release enhanced airborne coronavirus particles into Chinese bat populations to inoculate them against diseases that could jump to humans, leaked grant proposals dating from 2018 show. New documents show that just 18 months before the first Covid-19 cases appeared, researchers had submitted plans to release skin-penetrating nanoparticles and aerosols […]
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Wuhan scientists planned to create chimeric viruses, genetically enhanced to infect humans more easily, and requested $14 million from DARPA
September 24th, 2021 Awake Goy
Monkeys in Asia harbor virus from humans, other species
November 5th, 2015 Awake Goy
Near the border of Cambodia, UW researcher Lisa Jones-Engel holds an Asian rhesus macaque. Credit: Lynn Johnson When it comes to spreading viruses, bats are thought to be among the worst. Now a new study of nearly 900 nonhuman primates in Bangladesh and Cambodia shows that macaques harbor more diverse astroviruses, which can cause infectious […]