Very interesting discovery, makes me wonder what other private sources of animals are involved in supplying research labs.
As for Fang Li, a prolific publisher, named in hundreds of papers with thousands of citations, how odd of Baric et al to mention the grant but not the world famous virologist recipient who is very well know to them.
An aside: I can't be alone in experiencing a bit of a shiver on noticing the zoo's Neotropical Bat Building is adjacent to its "Jurassic Park" area. Gulp!
I've written about the likelihood that Baric and his "live vaccines" (modified coronavirus) were used on camels in Saudi Arabia, causing the MERS outbreak.
I presume you are planning to write about this paper:
"SARS-CoV-2 in fruit bats, ferrets, pigs, and chickens: an experimental transmission study" by
Schlottau et al 2020, which confirmed that Egyptian Fruit Bat is susceptible to infection when inoculated with 100,000 live virions (TCID50) of the Muc-IMB-1 isolate of SARS-CoV-2. Muc-IMB-1 is the same as BavPat1/2020; this virus belongs to lineage B of SARS2, and was discovered in Germany in late Jan 2020. FYI, lineage B viruses have the D614G mutation, which greatly enhanced their infectivity and pathogenicity compared to the earlier lineage A SARS2 viruses.
Note that the isolate used to infect the fruit bats is the very same virus used to experimentally infect Raccoon-dog (Freuling et al 2020) as well as European Rabbit (Mykytyn et al 2021). Also, there is NO EVIDENCE that the White-tailed Deer in North America were infected with lineage A of the SARS2 virus. Only lineage B and subsequent Variants of Concern (eg, Delta, Alpha, Omicron etc) have been documented to infect deer in the US (see Marques et al 2021 & Feng et al 2023 (preprint: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-39782-x ).
Why indeed, also don't forget the deer.
Very interesting discovery, makes me wonder what other private sources of animals are involved in supplying research labs.
As for Fang Li, a prolific publisher, named in hundreds of papers with thousands of citations, how odd of Baric et al to mention the grant but not the world famous virologist recipient who is very well know to them.
An aside: I can't be alone in experiencing a bit of a shiver on noticing the zoo's Neotropical Bat Building is adjacent to its "Jurassic Park" area. Gulp!
I've written about the likelihood that Baric and his "live vaccines" (modified coronavirus) were used on camels in Saudi Arabia, causing the MERS outbreak.
I presume you are planning to write about this paper:
"SARS-CoV-2 in fruit bats, ferrets, pigs, and chickens: an experimental transmission study" by
Schlottau et al 2020, which confirmed that Egyptian Fruit Bat is susceptible to infection when inoculated with 100,000 live virions (TCID50) of the Muc-IMB-1 isolate of SARS-CoV-2. Muc-IMB-1 is the same as BavPat1/2020; this virus belongs to lineage B of SARS2, and was discovered in Germany in late Jan 2020. FYI, lineage B viruses have the D614G mutation, which greatly enhanced their infectivity and pathogenicity compared to the earlier lineage A SARS2 viruses.
Note that the isolate used to infect the fruit bats is the very same virus used to experimentally infect Raccoon-dog (Freuling et al 2020) as well as European Rabbit (Mykytyn et al 2021). Also, there is NO EVIDENCE that the White-tailed Deer in North America were infected with lineage A of the SARS2 virus. Only lineage B and subsequent Variants of Concern (eg, Delta, Alpha, Omicron etc) have been documented to infect deer in the US (see Marques et al 2021 & Feng et al 2023 (preprint: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-39782-x ).