Coronavirus first appeared among workers removing bathe faeces from Chinese mineshaft back in 2012 and may not come from Wuhan market, scientists say
- Miners remove batfeces from the Mojiang mine in Yunnan province
- Six fell ill with a pneumonia-like illness that resulted in three of them dying
- Sample tissue of patients with were sent to a lab in Wuhan eight years ago
It is thought that Covid-19 may have originated in 2012 in a Chinese mineshaft and not in Wuhan.
Scientists believe the virus could have actually started 1000 miles away from the wet market in Wuhan.
Six miners contracted a pneumonia-like virus eight years ago at the Mojiang mine in Yunnan province in southwest China.
The miners spent two weeks in batfeces, resulting in three of them dying from the virus.
Scientists believe the virus could have started in the Mojiang mine eight years ago, pictured, could have started in the Chinese province of Yunnan, when six miners became ill after spending two weeks on battered faeces
Scientists believe the virus could have actually started in Mojiang, 1000 miles away from the wet market in Wuhan
According to The Sun, Dr. Li Xu, who treated the miners, describes how the patients had a high fever, a dry cough, sore limbs and, in some cases, headaches.
These are symptoms we now associate with Covid-19 according to Virologist Jonathan Latham and molecular biologist Allison Wilson.
Latham and Wilson, who both work for the nonprofit Bioscience Resource Project in Ithaca, read the dissertation written by a Chinese medical doctor who treated the miners.
The miners, who had been digging at the image of the Moijang grave, had a high fever, a dry cough, sore limbs and, in some cases, headaches, which are symptoms we now associate with Covid-19
Researchers are trying to record the origin of Covid-19, pictured
They said the evidence in the dissertation led them to ‘remember everything’, that they thought they knew about the pandemic.
Latham told the New York Post that the coronavirus “almost certainly” escaped “from the Wuhan lab.
They believe that the virus, which killed more than 760,000 people worldwide, evolved in the miners and was highly adapted for humans.
The doctor who treated the six miners sent sample tissue to a laboratory in Wuhan, which found it to be a SARS-like coronavirus from a Chinese rufous horse bat. Pictured, scientists rub bats to find the origin of Covid-19
Trial tissues of the infected miners went to the Wuhan lab by the doctor, where many believed the virus was leaking out.
Scientists at the lab then found that the source of infection was a SARS-like coronavirus from a Chinese rufous horse bat.
The wet market in Wuhan is still believed to have been where the virus started in December 2019.
Virologist Jonathan Latham and molecular biologist Allison Wilson believe the disease escapes from a lab in Wuhan and not from the wet market, as is believed. Image: A seller at a Chinese market cuts meat
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