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Report: ‘Highly Evolved’ Polio Strain May Have Been Leaked From Same Wuhan Lab Testing COVID-19

The same Chinese facility that is understood to have leaked the global COVID-19 virus may have also leaked a “highly evolved” strain of polio, according to a new report obtained by Daily Mail.

According to a recent study, the strain that infected a 4-year-old boy in the Anhui province of China is “99%” identical to a variety stored at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, 200 miles away. The child became infected in the midst of the province of Anhui’s larger virus outbreak.

Molecular biologist Richard Ebright, who was not involved with the research, maintains that “the findings underscore the shocking unsafe state of global virology research.”

“Richard H. Ebright, Ph.D., is Board of Governors Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology at Rutgers University and Laboratory Director at the Waksman Institute of Microbiology.  He directs a laboratory of approximately ten postdoctoral associates, graduate students, and technicians and serves as project leader on three National Institutes of Health research grants,” according to waksman.rutgers.edu.

However, the origins of the strain, known as WIV14, still needs to be investigated, as other researchers are not positive that it undoubtedly originated in the Wuhan facility.

On the other hand, researchers at the Pasteur Institute in Paris, France, surmise that it likely originated from a 1950s strain of the virus that was mostly utilized in testing laboratories in order to develop vaccines.

Nevertheless, there are still grounds for their suspicions, such as the lab’s reputation for inadequate safety protocols and the relative closeness of Anhui province to Wuhan.

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