About the Genomic Origin and Direct Source of the Pandemic Virus

About the Genomic Origin and Direct Source of the Pandemic Virus Dany Shoham* The debate over the genomic origin and direct source of the pandemic virus has intensified due to recent analyses concerning activities that had taken place in Wuhan prior to the initial outbreak and thereafter. [...] Besides this, the germ causing anthrax is studied in the institute, too (which is beyond the discipline of virology).2 The study on anthrax was done with the State Key Laboratory of Pathogen and Biosecurity of the Academy of Military Medical Sciences. [...] About the Genomic Origin and Direct Source of the Pandemic Virus 81 An additional important perspective can be attained by looking into the list of Chinese facilities or bodies that were represented in the international ‘Trends in Science and Technology Relevant to the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention’,3 in China, in 2010. [...] A few weeks later, in an article in The Washington Times, it was stated while talking about the roots of the virus that: Certain laboratories in the institute (WIV) have probably been engaged, in terms of research and development, in Chinese [biological weapons], at least collaterally, yet not as a principal facility of the Chinese BW alignment. [...] However, the issue of how the interfaces taking place during the last decade among the WIV, WIBP, the PLA and the Chinese defence establishment, within the context of SARS-related coronaviruses research and development, ought to be observed remains open for the time being.