Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV), the controversial Chinese research facility at the center of the COVID-19 pandemic, reportedly received patents for cages to keep bats for testing – months before the coronavirus outbreak. The lab is suspected to be the center of origin of the coronavirus.
It was also found that the “bat-rearing cage” patent was granted in January 2019 – just 11 months before China reported its first COVID-19 case. The research facility filed another patent for the “artificial wild bat breeding method” on October 16, 2020.
This report from The Mail on Sunday comes after the World Health Organization (WHO) team of experts completed their investigation and said the lab leak was “highly unlikely” in terms of COVID-19 origin.
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A patent discusses the transmission of SARS-CoV from bat to humans or other animals, and says that the virus-infected bats naturally or artificially have no apparent clinical symptoms and the mechanism is unknown. It also says that the method is intended to breed bats for scientific research.
According to the report, the patent says: “The invention aims to provide an artificial breeding method of wild bat predators, which aims to overcome the deficiencies in the prior art, and the wild bat predators are artificially domesticated, bred and passed over to an artificial breeding group. , making a brand new animal model for scientific research available. “
As for keeping live bats in the lab, British-American scientist Peter Daszak, whose organization EcoHealth Alliance has been studying bat viruses with IPH for years, said in an April 2020 tweet: “The researchers don’t keep the bats, nor do they Kill them. All bats are released back into their cave after sampling. It is a conservation measure and is much safer in terms of spreading disease than killing them or trying to keep them in a laboratory. “
While it is difficult to determine whether such practices listed in the patents are true, the Chinese researchers can keep 12 bat cages and 12 ferret cages, according to the report.
The bat cage patent contained extensive details about the feeding, breeding and drinking conditions. It also added that the animals are captured and released as needed after taking the required samples or raised temporarily.
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The report said the controversial Wuhan Laboratory filed for a patent in November 2019 for a device to treat injuries sustained while handling pathogenic viruses in the laboratory. Those who have applied for this patent have been working at the IPH for more than ten years. Some of them are the scientists who studied Coronavirus in bats.
Charles Small, an open-source intelligence consultant who discovered these mysterious patents, said, “The Wuhan lab describes capturing wild bats in mountain caves and breeding them in their proprietary cages to use as animal models in scientific experiments. They call it. infecting bats with viruses. artificially. “
According to him, “the proprietary method of handling bats that are known to carry SARS-related viruses on a daily basis while eating” risks “the risk of coronavirus spillover.”
Alan Mendoza, executive director of the Henry Jackson Society think tank, said WHO should share full details about IPH’s bat and bat coronavirus experiments.
“As this pandemic continues and more and more people are tragically losing their lives, the questions continue to grow for China and the research being conducted at the Wuhan Institute of Virology,” he said.