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The British “Daily Telegraph” recently reported that the “Five Eyes” intelligence agency made up of Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and the United States is investigating the source of the military lung virus, either from Wuhan The Seafood Market South China still leaked from the Wuhan P4 laboratory. Zhou Peng, a researcher at the Wuhan Virus Research Institute who had studied abroad in Australia, and Shi Zhengli, director of the Infectious Disease Research Center of the Wuhan Virus Research Institute, were reported to be the subjects of the investigation.
According to an Apple Daily report today, the Five Eyes Alliance investigated the source of the virus and attacked Zhou Peng and Shi Zhengli of the Wuhan Research Institute. Zhou Peng and Shi Zhengli have reportedly participated in research projects jointly funded by the Australian and Chinese governments in the past. Zhou Peng, the team leader of the Bat Virus Infection and Immunization Project at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, was sent to the Australian Animal Health Laboratory at public expense from 2011 to 2014, and then did research work at the Duke- Nus Medical College in Australia and Singapore.
Official information from China shows that Zhou Peng “has long been involved in the epidemiology of emerging viruses and bat antiviral immunity, revealing the immune mechanism of bats carrying SARS, the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome and the Ebola virus for a long time, but its own disease does not occur. ” , “At the forefront of the world in the field of bat and virus research.”
The report says the Daily Telegraph also stated that Zhou Peng had arranged for wild-caught living bats to be airlifted from Queensland to the Australian Animal Health Laboratory in Victoria. ) And dissect the bat after euthanasia and study the deadly virus it carries. Zhou Peng’s research was jointly funded by the Australian Institute of Science and Industry (CSIRO) and the Chinese Academy of Sciences to study bat immunology and the role of interferon, and “how bats carry abundant viruses, including many Highly lethal viruses, “and” many of them will also cause high morbidity and high lethality to humans and other mammals. “
This research aims to prevent the next outbreak by understanding how the virus spreads from bats to humans to infect the coronavirus; But this work is said to be inherently high risk, and for many years the outside world has been concerned that the virus was accidentally leaked from the laboratory. It caused a global pandemic.
The report noted that another Chinese scientist concerned with the “Five Eyes Alliance” is Shi Zhengli, director of the Wuhan Virus Institute’s Center for New Infectious Disease Research. Shi Zhengli lived in Australia as a visiting scholar for 3 months from February 22 to May 21, 2006. She did research at the Animal Health Laboratory of the Australian Organization for Science and Industry and used samples of horseshoe bat feces to identify them . If you are the natural host for the SARS coronavirus. The Daily Telegraph reported that during the outbreak in Wuhan, Shi Zhengli once said that she was unable to sleep at night because she was concerned that the virus was leaking from the laboratory, but then changed her tune and firmly denied that the virus leaked from the laboratory. . On the afternoon of February 2, Shi Zhengli also replied in WeChat’s circle of friends: “The new 2019 coronavirus is nature’s punishment for the uncivilized habits of humans. Shi Shili used my life guarantee, which it has nothing to do with the laboratory. “
The report says that Australian politicians are currently pressing China to cooperate with the international community to investigate the source of the pneumovirus outbreak, and are even hesitant to take the Australian economy as a gamble. Senior diplomats believe the current relationship between the two countries has fallen to the bottom, which is the worst ice age since diplomatic ties were established 46 years ago. According to Andrew Hastie, chairman of the Joint Intelligence and Security Committee of the Australian Parliament, “China must take responsibility for the country where the virus originated and cooperate with the rest of the world to prevent recurrence. We only ask for transparency and cooperation.”
The Australian Scientific Industry Organization and the Australian Animal Health Laboratory are reported to have multiple joint research projects with China, all of which are related to bat-related disease research. Scientists between China and Australia are among the laboratories in Australia and China. Shuttle A spokesperson for the Australian Science and Industry Organization said the organization and China have “cooperated in quality research and R&D for more than 40 years.” The spokesperson said: “Although the Australian Animal Health Laboratory has not started bat research, it is misleading and irresponsible to study bats out of context. The bat research has laid a solid foundation for our understanding of zoonotic diseases ” With the foundation in place, CSIRO’s investigative work is due diligence and due diligence, and attaches great importance to security concerns. “
Apple Daily quoted the news as saying a spokesman for the Australian Security Intelligence Agency (ASIO) declined to comment.
