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H 5 SARS CoV 2 first infected humans through a research related incident at the WIV

H-5 - SARS-CoV-2 first infected humans through a research-related incident at the WIV

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hypothesis
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H-5
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question
Where and how did SARS-CoV-2 first infect humans?
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SARS-CoV-2 first infected humans through a research-related incident (lab leak) at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, potentially involving an engineered furin cleavage site of the kind proposed in DEFUSE.
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HC-1 - Route of the first human SARS-CoV-2 infection
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S-15 - DEFUSE proposal 2018 - leaked EcoHealth Alliance-WIV DARPA grant application proposing furin cleavage site insertion into bat coronaviruses
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  • structure
  • A-5 - DEFUSE documents intent and capability to engineer exactly the furin site SARS-CoV-2 has but absent from relatives, raising lab-origin probability
  • Analysis of HC-1 - Route of the first human SARS-CoV-2 infection
  • HC-1 - Route of the first human SARS-CoV-2 infection
  • main report - Did SARS-CoV-2 first infect humans through natural zoonotic spillover or through a research-related incident
  • S-15 - DEFUSE proposal 2018 - leaked EcoHealth Alliance-WIV DARPA grant application proposing furin cleavage site insertion into bat coronaviruses

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