Thursday, January 11, 2024 – China has been experimenting with a new deadly coronavirus-like virus that is "100% fatal to mice," it has been revealed.
According to a new paper published on bioRxiv, doctors
trained by the Chinese military had made their own version of
"pangolin coronavirus" and had given it to a group of mice to
see what would happen.
The pangolin animal can get coronavirus, so that is the
version experts have used for this experiment, and called it GX_P2V.
The experts found that the four mice given the virus all
dramatically lost weight within five days after being infected, started to
become "sluggish" and their eyes went white. And just eight days
after they were given it, they all died.
It was then found that the virus had spread to the brain,
eyes and lungs, and had actually increased in the brain over the last two days
of life.
The scientists have claimed they were "surprised"
by the results and they warned that the virus could "spill over into
humans".
They said: "This finding suggested that severe brain
infection during the later stages of infection may be the key cause of death in
these mice.
"To the best of our knowledge, this is the first report
showing that a SARS-CoV-2-related pangolin coronavirus can cause 100% mortality
in hACE2 mice, suggesting a risk for GX_P2V to spill over into humans. Due to
the propensity of coronaviruses to undergo adaptive mutation during passage
culture, we cloned and analysed mutations in GX_P2V, focusing specifically on
the pathogenicity of the cloned strains.
"The high pathogenicity mechanism of GX_P2V C7 in hACE2
mice, in the absence of the wild-type GX_P2V control, requires further
investigation."
More tests are set to be carried out with a live version of
the virus from the wild, rather than using a lab-made version.
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