Interesting if inconclusive and somewhat long reads about where the virus might have originated.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-55364445
and some of its links
www.virosin.org/article/doi/10.1007/s12250-016-3713-9
www.pnas.org/content/117/47/29246
www.globaltimes.cn/content/1208404.shtml
It'll be interesting of the investigation comes up with anything. I've never really thought it was a leak from a lab but I can see that it might look likely.
As an aside - I'd take with a pinch of salt the cloak and dagger stuff at the start of the Beeb article.. I was involved with a pirate radio station at school and we met a reporter for the local rag but when it made the front page of the paper that was full of him being "blindfolded and put into the back of a car, driven for many miles" etc.
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