Emails show that scientists at the Wuhan Institute of Virology were collecting bats' viral samples.
The country where the closest relative to Covid-19 has been found is where the scientists were studying the high-risk bat species.
The Banal 52 strain in Laos shares almost all of its genome with the sars-coV-2 strain, boosting claims of a natural spillover event rather than a laboratory leak.
It was not clear how the bat-borne virus from Laos could have ended up sparking an outbreak more than a thousand miles away.
The leaked emails show that the EcoHealth Alliance and US government funders were sending samples from bats in Laos for study.
The White Coat Waste Project obtained emails that suggest that bats and other high-risk species were sent to Wuhan between June and May.
The closest relative to Covid-19 was discovered in cave bats in China, where EcoHealth Alliance was looking for viruses and sending samples back to the Institute of Virology.
The online database of the genetic sequence was kept at the Wuhan institute. Experts were unsure of what strains were studied at the lab after that was removed.
The emails added more weight to the theory that the virus came from a lab in Wuhan.
The peer spoke at the Institute of Economic Affairs in London and said thatBanal 52 is not close to being the progenitor. Maybe the virus started in Laos. Interesting possibility.
A document showing that the EcoHealth Alliance was sampling bats in Laos was leaked.
They want to send all the samples to a Laotian lab because it would be difficult to get permission from the US Government to give them some of the grant. There was a place called Wuhan.
The outbreak happened in a city with the world's largest research programme on bat-borne coronaviruses, where scientists had gone to at least two places where the viruses live.
There are plausible explanations on how Covid -19 came about.
Emails give plausible explanations for how Covid-19 could have arisen, according to advocates of the lab leak theory.
A researcher and member of the Drastic group wrote in a recent post that there is a very plausible direct route from Laos to Wuhan.
The bat sampler was on a field sampling trip. There was a research accident in Wuhan when manipulating a bat coronaviruses.
Mr Demaneuf points out that the EcoHealth Alliance was working with the Wuhan Institue on a grant application that discussed the manipulation of viruses.
The scientists at the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency were hoping to make it easier for the coronaviruses to enter human cells by introducing human-specific cleavage sites.
The team planned to use the naturally occurring coronaviruses to create a new sequence that was an average of all the strains.
If Covid-19 had been produced in this way, it would explain why a close match has never been found.
It would be great to discover the origins of the epidemic.
Lord Ridley said it was staggering that governments around the world were not doing more to find out the true origin of the epidemic.
He said that we need to find out because we need to prevent it from happening and be willing to deter the bad actors who are watching it.
When the World Health Organization says "well, nothing to see", it will be noticed in North Korea and other places.
I don't think there is a viral lab being set up in North Korea, but it does need to be said.
At the time of publication, EcoHealth Alliance had not responded.
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