EXCL: Chinese scientists have uncovered eight new viruses living in rodents on a tropical island off the country s cost and have called for experiments on how ill they might make people to be conducted.
Researchers took samples from nearly 700 rodents on the Chinese island of Hainan in the hopes of learning how to confront a future pandemic, and they discovered eight new viruses, including one linked to the current coronavirus
EXCL: Does a new Chinese study finding a furin cleavage site in non-Covid virus found in bats prove it wasn t made in a lab? While Beijing s scientists say yes, UK and US experts say no.