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2023-11-30 14:31:37 UTC - HELPFUL
Rated by Participant: FDE78AD92305B11F5A43AC17FE87D93E4547C091176BC4051064FB38FA87597F
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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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