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2023-11-30 15:30:17 UTC - HELPFUL
Rated by Participant: A0257D9BCBA68C8EDC49FF1274D8A851D1EAF3266FDA99BF5CE5E08E61E00403
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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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