Friday, 19 August, 2022
TopicWuhan Institute of Virology

Topic: Wuhan Institute of Virology

Wuhan lab’s deleted data, unreported pneumonia cases — challenges to ‘natural’ origins of Covid

Abantika Ghosh -
Research group called DRASTIC is trawling the internet, comparing notes & putting up a concerted resistance to Chinese claims, supported by WHO, that SARS-CoV-2 has natural origins.

Story of how ‘amateur sleuths’ forced world to consider Wuhan lab leak theory about Covid

Soniya Agrawal -
Group called DRASTIC spends months scouring internet to discover how Wuhan lab had been studying coronaviruses, including one that is genetically similar to SARS-CoV-2.

Lab leak is the biggest suspect in 1977 flu pandemic. But it took 3 decades to gain currency

Mohana Basu -
The 1977 pandemic — called the 'Russian Flu' — was caused by the Human influenza H1N1 virus. It came to be known as such because it was first reported by the erstwhile Soviet Union.

Before Wuhan row, how US-China created SARS-like virus in 2015 to show its pandemic potential

Mohana Basu -
The 2015 study is an example of a ‘gain of function’ research that scientists from University of North Carolina in US & China's Wuhan Institute of Virology had been involved in for several years.

Virus labs need more oversight, even if Covid lab leak theory isn’t found true

Faye Flam -
There’s no convincing evidence that SARS-CoV-2 has been genetically manipulated, but it’s well known that scientists have manipulated other viruses to make them more dangerous.

Wondering how a killer virus can possibly leak out of a secure lab? This is how

Sandhya Ramesh -
There have been growing demands to investigate whether the Covid pandemic was caused by a virus leak & if yes, was it owing to  a biosecurity issue, or engineered to infect humans in the lab.

WHO global study on Covid origins ‘important first step’, says India

ANI -
MEA spokesperson Arindam Bagchi also said the follow up of the WHO report and further studies deserve the 'understanding and cooperation of all'.

US to study ‘still-unexamined evidence’ to probe if Covid-19 leaked from Wuhan lab

Tenzin Zompa -
In a statement, President Biden said while two elements of the intelligence community 'lean' toward the scenario that the virus emerged from human contact with infected animal, another points to a 'lab accident'.

What scientists now say on Covid origin in Wuhan lab and what they dismissed prematurely

Tom Kertscher -
Wuhan lab researchers created new viruses by using reverse genetics on bat coronaviruses. Some of this research was funded by the US.

What is gain of function? Research field back in focus as Covid linked to China ‘lab accident’

Mohana Basu -
Gain of function research focuses on growing generations of microorganisms under conditions that cause mutations. For years, there has been an ethical debate around it.
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