China’s “Bat Lady” Shi Zhengli, a leading researcher from the Wuhan Institute of Virology whose work may have played a role in the murky origins of the coronavirus pandemic, is back to conducting coronavirus research in partnership with Western scientists, including from the University of Washington.
A study published by scientists at the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) in July, and reportedly circulating widely on Chinese social media this week, concluded that as many as 20 species of coronavirus are “highly likely” to cause an outbreak among humans.
Shi Zhengli, the “Bat Woman” of the Wuhan Institute of Virology, is nominated for membership in the elite Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Wuhan and American researchers with EcoHealth Alliance and the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) had a plan to release “enhanced airborne coronavirus particles” into Chinese bat populations to inoculate them against diseases that could jump to humans, according to a new report from the British newspaper Telegraph.
China’s government-controlled media demanded an investigation into the University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill on Monday and, in particular, researcher Ralph Baric — considered one of America’s top coronavirus experts — for allegedly creating the Chinese coronavirus.
The House Appropriations Committee voted Thursday to approved an amendment prohibiting funds to the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV), after Dr. Anthony Fauci had approved nearly $1 million to be allocated to the lab located in communist China.
During a report aired on Tuesday’s “NBC Nightly News,” NBC News Senior International Correspondent Keir Simmons reported that Dr. Shi Zhengli, one of the top scientists at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, who is nicknamed the “Bat Woman,” “has multiple
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) said Tuesday new evidence shows Americans were presumably infected with coronavirus in December 2019, a month after three Wuhan lab workers reportedly became ill.
The Wuhan Lab so-called “bat woman,” Shi Zhengli, has denied the Wuhan Institute of Virology kept live bats on the premises that a video released Sunday allegedly shows.
