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2023-11-30 18:14:33 UTC - HELPFUL
Rated by Participant: 657F148059AE79EE9AADB61A0B94C25B010C69A53C0D0AE7646F0795772CEA3E
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Ebolavirus is present already in the wild. The Wuhan Institute of Virology was already permitted to study Ebola as they're a BSL-4 lab. Substantial evidence suggests COVID-19 originated via spillover from bats to intermediate hosts in wildlife farms/markets, not lab leak https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-020-0820-9 https://www.nature.com/articles/nature.2017.21487 https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abp8715
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