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The Covid-19 pandemic in FrancedossierA recent scientific study on the dangerousness of a pangolin coronavirus in China raises the question of the safety and validity of certain virology experiments.
A pangolin coronavirus, dead mice in a laboratory, a draft of a scientific article… A very bad cocktail four years following the appearance of Sars-Cov-2 responsible for the Covid-19 pandemic. Le Figaro published an article on Thursday, January 18 entitled “A dangerously modified pangolin coronavirus in China”. The article reports the results of a Chinese study published in the light form of a simple text of a few pages on the BioRXiv website, where scientists can share their work in progress. Research not yet accepted by a scientific journal, therefore. Libération takes stock.
What does the study in question say?
Published on January 4 by Lihua Song, researcher at the Beijing Technological University of Chemistry, the study focuses on a coronavirus identified in pangolins before the Covid-19 pandemic, in 2019. The researchers wanted to test whether this virus was present in small mammals had the potential to infect humans. To do this, they used mice. But genetically modified rodents. In fact, they have been manipulated to ensure that a human protein is present on the surface.
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