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Coronavirus origin traced to miners with mystery illness in China in 2012 in new theory – 7NEWS.com.au
The research has raised the possibility of a controversial theory about the virus, scientists say.
Six miners who contracted a mysterious illness with symptoms similar to severe pneumonia in 2012 are at the centre of a new theory on the origins of COVID-19.
Three of the miners died, with a virtually forgotten study by a doctor who treated them in China unearthed amid the current pandemic.
The miners were working in a mine in Yunnan Province, where anal swabs were subsequently taken from bats, rats and shrews in the the shaft.
Years later, researchers who have had translated and analysed th…
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