Shi Zhengli, a well-known Chinese researcher who has long researched SARS-like coronaviruses originating from bats, warned that the spread of coronavirus is "just the tip of the iceberg" given what humanity can face without a global efforts to prevent similar infectious outbreaks.
"If we want to prevent another outbreak of the disease, we need to move forward with the study of these viruses, which are found in wildlife," she told China's state television, CGTN.
Shi Zhengli is known as a "bat woman" because of her long-term research on night bats in particular and all mammalian viruses in general.
Zhengli serves as deputy director of the Wuhan lab, which allegedly accidentally released the virus to humans, claims that were rejected by the lab.
Claims that the virus came from our laboratory have a "pure fabrication" said the director of the Institute for Wang Yanyi CGTN following accusations by US President, Donald Trump. "Like everyone else, we didn't know the virus existed. How could he come out of our lab? ?
Rain also denied the allegations, saying the strains of bats she studied (a genetic or subtype variant of an organism, such as a virus or a bacterium) were different.
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