Origin of COVID-19: Dismissing the Mojiang mine theory and the laboratory accident narrative

The origin of SARS-CoV-2 is still the subject of a controversial debate. The natural origin theory is confronted to the laboratory leak theory. The latter is composite and comprises contradictory theories, one being the leak of a naturally occurring virus and the other the leak of a genetically engi...

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Autores principales: Frutos, Roger, Javelle, Emilie, Barberot, Celine, Gavotte, Laurent, Tissot-Dupont, Herve, Devaux, Christian A.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier Inc. 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8490156/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34597664
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.envres.2021.112141
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Gavotte, Laurent
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description The origin of SARS-CoV-2 is still the subject of a controversial debate. The natural origin theory is confronted to the laboratory leak theory. The latter is composite and comprises contradictory theories, one being the leak of a naturally occurring virus and the other the leak of a genetically engineered virus. The laboratory leak theory is essentially based on a publication by Rahalkar and Bahulikar in 2020 linking SARS-CoV-2 to the Mojiang mine incident in 2012 during which six miners fell sick and three died. We analyzed the clinical reports. The diagnosis is not that of COVID-19 or SARS. SARS-CoV-2 was not present in the Mojiang mine. We also bring arguments against the laboratory leak narrative.
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spelling pubmed-84901562021-10-05 Origin of COVID-19: Dismissing the Mojiang mine theory and the laboratory accident narrative Frutos, Roger Javelle, Emilie Barberot, Celine Gavotte, Laurent Tissot-Dupont, Herve Devaux, Christian A. Environ Res Article The origin of SARS-CoV-2 is still the subject of a controversial debate. The natural origin theory is confronted to the laboratory leak theory. The latter is composite and comprises contradictory theories, one being the leak of a naturally occurring virus and the other the leak of a genetically engineered virus. The laboratory leak theory is essentially based on a publication by Rahalkar and Bahulikar in 2020 linking SARS-CoV-2 to the Mojiang mine incident in 2012 during which six miners fell sick and three died. We analyzed the clinical reports. The diagnosis is not that of COVID-19 or SARS. SARS-CoV-2 was not present in the Mojiang mine. We also bring arguments against the laboratory leak narrative. Elsevier Inc. 2022-03 2021-09-28 /pmc/articles/PMC8490156/ /pubmed/34597664 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.envres.2021.112141 Text en © 2021 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.envres.2021.112141
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