One of the very first analysis about the new Corona virus made by Indian scientists in 2020, mentioned that the virus included sequences from HIV. Professor Montagnier, the discoverer of HIV said the same a little later. I covered both news as they were ridiculed in the Media.
Now, someone has uncovered this article from 2004, a little after the first wave of Corona, which shows how already scientists were experimenting on both virus. Wouldn't 16 years of research be enough to weaponize the Corona Virus by including sequences of HIV and making the spike protein more human friendly?
Let's ask this question differently: If you are a scientist working on such virus, trying to weaponize them, wouldn't such studies be the most obvious?
Corona has a high level of transmission. HIV has a high ability to hide from our immune system and the S-protein is the key to making the virus more infectious.
Abstract of the research document:
Studies of SARS coronavirus (SARS-CoV)—the causative agent of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS)—have been hampered by its high transmission rate and the pathogenicity of this virus. To permit analysis of the host range and entry mechanism of SARS-CoV, we incorporated the humanized SARS-CoV spike (S) glycoprotein into HIV particles to generate a highly infectious SARS-CoV pseudotyped virus. The infection on Vero E6—a permissive cell line to SARS-CoV—could be neutralized by sera from convalescent SARS patients, and the entry was a pH-dependent process. With these highly infectious SARS-CoV pseudotypes, several cell lines derived from various tissues were revealed as susceptible to SARS-CoV, which were highly corresponding to the expression pattern of virus’s receptor angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (ACE2). In addition, we also demonstrated angiotensin 1 converting enzyme (ACE)—the homologue of ACE2 could not function as a receptor for SARS-CoV.
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