I saw this rumor, complete nonsense. he did a presentation in Russia yesterday on this. this so-called Russian medical expert really gives those Guangdong farmers too much credit. the first 30 or so deaths all occurred in one county and they were all farmers raising chickens or other birds.
I can only hope people in Hongkong knows better than that, and won't believe those kind of crap. And the key word this Russian used is "hybrid", and claimed that this type of virus could be only made in lab. However, I have absolutely no idea that where he got this type of "hybrid" virus. they are definitely NOT from SARS patients from China, and from what I read, only coronavirus has been found in all other western researches.
Chinese scientists at the beginning only isolated out a typical chlamydia-like agent, and then later through cloning genes and also isolated out 3 coronavirus, which is extremely hard to isolate. And these two are COMPLETELY SEPARATE TWO different types of virus. And doctors in Canada and other western countries, maybe also in HK, only isolated out coronavirus, not typical chlamydia-like agent. So the fact is there is NO hybrid virus at all.
And from what I read, I think one way to explain why the research outside China has not found any chlamydia-like agent is because China was looking at original carriers, while Canadian doctors were looking at 2nd/3rd generation carriers. And this may also explain why the original carriers had higher death rate because the co-existence of two types of virus. Of course, all this just my own hypothesis. and what do I know!
Chinese government has never engaged in developing agents for biological war, not before, not now, not ever. |
