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Oct 2, 2023Liked by Jim Haslam

Definitely suspicious. Found this report from pasteur but they did not even mention coronaviruses .

https://www.pasteur.la/project-carried-on-in-the-lab-14/assessment-of-the-potential-vector-threat-of-bat-borne-pathogens-and-the-host-associated-ectoparasites-in-the-provinces-of-vientiane-and-khammouane-of-the-lao-pdr-batmap-project-extension/

I suspect the 2021 sequences may hv been from 2017 samples. Unlike RaTG13 they actually isolated the virus (so they say)

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Oct 5, 2023·edited Oct 5, 2023Author

Yes, that is the 2017 bat fly collection GPS logistics showing Institut Pastuer collected fecal samples from Chinese horseshoe bats, but they only published the bat flies.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6856264/

And you don't collect bat fecal samples to test for bat flies, they (NMRC-A and DoD) were probably looking for coronaviruses (and found them). IP didn't (couldn't) publish the bat sequences until 2021 when they went back and collected the same bat fecal samples with their own money

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-04532-4

IP only isolated Banal-236 on the 2nd collection, the one we humans produce antibodies against, but Baric can isolate any virus by just downloading the Banal sequences (presumably uploaded to DoD GEIS in 2017).

https://www.health.mil/Military-Health-Topics/Health-Readiness/AFHSD/Global-Emerging-Infections-Surveillance-and-Response

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