Covid Origins: Closest Viruses To Sars- Cov-2 Found In Laos

[Julieanne]

Hannah Flynn
October 1 2021

• Numerous theories exist around the origins of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, which causes COVID-19, but none has yet been proven.
• Parts of the genome of the SARS-CoV-2 virus are so unusual that it has given rise to conspiracy theories that the virus must have been developed in a lab.
• Researchers have now discovered in bats living in caves in Laos strains of viruses so similar to SARS-CoV-2 that they believe they could infect humans.
• This discovery could prove the natural origins of the COVID-19 pandemic and that direct bat-to-human transmission of the virus is a possible cause of the pandemic.

Since SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, was first detected in Wuhan, China, in December 2019, there have been global efforts to determine its origins.

Read more: https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/art...740408e9475469

[Islander]

That's very persuasive. What continues to disturb me is the number of systems and organs in the human being that the virus is able to impact; it even crosses the blood brain barrier. Perhaps it wouldn't take much modification of one of those three bat viruses to make it increasingly weaponized. I don't mean to promote a conspiracy theory; I'm just exploring some of the many possible options.