It was claimed that a new virus was detected in the laboratory in China, which is shown as the starting point of the coronavirus. According to the news in the British Daily Mail; Researchers at the Wuhan Institute of Virology discovered the pathogen, codenamed LsPyV KY187, in a mouse. There are serious questions about the pathogen, which belongs to a family of polyomaviruses that infect millions of children each year, but which is extremely mild.
THEY SENT FROM KENYA TO CHINA
Scientists at the controversial lab tested hundreds of rodents in Kenya in 2016 and 2019.
The suspected rodents they detected there were sent to the biochemical research facility in Wuhan for analysis. The new polyomavirus was detected in a striped grass mouse, sometimes known as the zebra mouse.
THE IMPACT ON PEOPLE IS UNCERTAIN
It emerged in a study published this month in the Chinese journal Virologica Sinica. The researchers said that because the new virus is not closely related to any known pathogen, its impact on humans is ‘uncertain and needs further evaluation’.