In 2012, six miners cleaned up an abandoned mine in Yunnan Provincetraces of vital activity
Moreover, they had the same symptoms aswith COVID-19: cough, chills, high fever, chest pain and shortness of breath. Three workers, despite the efforts of doctors, died from the consequences of pneumonia.
What caused mine workers to die
The miners had a dry cough, respiratory failure, acute respiratory distress syndrome, increased thrombosis - all these symptoms are noted in those infected with coronavirus.
One of the patients underwent thymectomy(removal of the thymus), although there were no objective indications for this. As a rule, such an operation is performed for cancer, as well as for progressive myasthenia gravis (muscle weakness).
American scientists believe that the thymus was removed on purpose, since it could contain a large amount of the virus. Scientists might need it for detailed study.
Some experts also point out that if speechwas about a fungal disease, then only antifungal drugs could stop the disease. In addition, the state of blood vessels, thromboembolism and a reduced number of lymphocytes still indicate viral pneumonia.
In any case, American scientists have specified howit was the sick people who were engaged in that mine - they cleaned it of bat feces. Here is another material on this matter: it says that the Mojiang mine was chosen by six species of bats. And including the famous red horseshoe bats Rhinolophus sinicus, which are considered the primary source of the current pandemic.
What was found in the mine
The mine itself, where the miners worked, is located inMojiang Hani Autonomous County in southwestern China. This is about 1,500 km from Wuhan, the place where COVID-19 was first discovered. In the same year, experts from the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) went to the mine to determine the cause of the illness and death of the miners.
According to Reuters, from 2012 to 2015TID researchers have identified up to 293 coronaviruses in and around the mine. In November 2020, the institute disclosed the existence of eight other SARS-like coronavirus samples found in the same locations.
Six months after that incident, the caveinvestigated and identified a new zoonotic pathogen. It was called the Mojiang virus and was considered a relative of the Nipah virus and the Hendra virus - they cause severe infections, including encephalitis. The same bats carry them.
What is known about the mine virus and how it relates to COVID-19
In 2013, a graduate student at Kunming UniversityMedical University Li Xu, who treated miners, published in his dissertation information about miners who fell ill in 2012. His work is still available in the Chinese online database of scientific articles.
In his research, he concludes that mountain womendied from a coronavirus similar to the one that caused SARS. A prominent Chinese epidemiologist and pulmonologist Zhong Nanshan, who studied the medical history of the miners, agreed with his conclusions.
Lee's work also mentions treatment methods,then used by doctors, in particular the use of steroids, antibiotics, blood thinners, and connection to a ventilator. Almost everything that is now used to treat patients with COVID-19 all over the world.
From a mine in Mojiang County in 2012–2013They also extracted fragments of a certain unstudied virus, designated as BtCoV/4991, and this was done by employees of the laboratory of the Wuhan Institute of Virology, headed by Shi Zhengli.
It is interesting that published after the startpandemic, an article by Wuhan virologists in Nature does not mention this BtCoV/4991 at all - instead, the viral genome RaTG13 appears there. The Americans, however, stated that BtCoV/4991 and RaTG13 are links in the same chain, or rather, BtCoV/4991 is part of RaTG13.
The analysis showed that 2019-nCoV (formerly called SARS-Cov-2) is very similar to RaTG13 in the entire genome with an overall genome sequence identity of 96.2%.
We assume that in the body of miners RaTG13(the genetically closest specimen to the new coronavirus) or a very similar virus evolved into SARS-CoV-2, an unusually pathogenic coronavirus highly adapted to humans. Shea's lab used medical samples taken from miners. It was this human-adapted virus, now known as SARS-CoV-2, that escaped from the Wuhan laboratory in 2019.
text of a study by American scientists Jonathan Latham and Allison Wilson
What's with the mine now
Chinese authorities do not allow to carry out in the mineno independent research. According to The Wall Street Journal (WSJ), a video surveillance camera and a checkpoint were installed near this facility.
Other journalists were not allowed to the mine, arguing that the region is unsafe due to wild elephants.
Conclusion
We do not claim that the SARS-Cov-2 virus wasspecially created using genetic engineering or as a biological weapon, but our theory suggests that scientific research conducted by Shi Zhengli's laboratory at the WIV at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, according to an article by Bioscience Resource Project scientists published in the Independent, played an important causal role in the pandemic Science News
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