The Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV), the controversial Chinese research facility in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, reportedly obtained patents for cages to keep bats for testing – months before the outbreak of the coronavirus. It is suspected that the laboratory is the center of origin of coronavirus.
It was also found that the patent for ‘cage-raising cages’ was granted in January 2019 – just 11 months before China filed its first COVID-19 case. The research facility filed another patent on 16 October 2020 for the ‘artificial breeding method of the wild bat’.
This report from The Mail on Sunday comes after the team of experts from the World Health Organization (WHO) concluded their investigation and said that the laboratory leak was ‘highly unlikely’ in terms of COVID-19 origin.
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A patent discusses the transmission of SARS-CoV from bats to humans or other animals and states that the virus-infected bats naturally or artificially have no clinical symptoms and the mechanism is not known. It also says that the method is to breed bats for scientific research.
According to the report, the patent reads: “The invention aims to provide an artificial breeding method of wild bat predators, aimed at overcoming the defects in the previous art, and the wild bat predators are artificially domesticated, bred and passed on to an artificial breeding group, providing a brand new experimental animal for scientific research. “
In terms of delivering live bats inside the laboratory, British-American scientist Peter Daszak, whose organization EcoHealth Alliance has been studying bat viruses with HIV for several years, said in a tweet in April 2020: “The researchers do not keep the bats nor do they kill them.All bats are released back to their cave area.This is a conservation measure and is much safer in terms of spreading diseases than killing them or putting them in a laboratory to try to keep.
Although according to the report, it is difficult to determine whether such practices are noticed in the patents, the Chinese researchers can keep 12 bat cages along with 12 fret cages.
The patent for the bat cage contains extensive details on the feeding, breeding and drinking conditions. It also added that the animals are captured and released as needed after taking the required samples or temporarily rearing them.
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The report said that in November 2019, the controversial Wuhan Laboratory filed a patent for the treatment of injuries sustained while dealing with pathogenic viruses in the laboratory. Those who filed this patent have been working for the WIV for more than a decade. Some of them are the scientists who studied Coronavirus in bats.
Charles Small, an open-source intelligence consultant who found these mysterious patents, said: “The Wuhan Laboratory describes capturing wild bats in mountain caves and breeding them in their patented cages for use as animal models in scientific experiments. mention that they infect bats with viruses. artificially. ‘
According to him, the patent method for dealing with bats that are known to carry SARS-related viruses daily during the feeding period is a ‘waste of the coronavirus’.
Alan Mendoza, executive director of the Henry Jackson Society brainstorm, said the WG should share full details on WIV’s bat and bat coronavirus experiments.
“As this pandemic continues and more and more people tragically lose their lives, the questions continue to increase for China and the research conducted at the Wuhan Institute of Virology,” he said.