COVID-19: August 2020 Archives

COVID-19 first appeared in Chinese miners in 2012: scientists

"The coronavirus may not have originated at a Wuhan wet market last year but 1,000 miles away in 2012 -- deep in a Chinese mineshaft where workers came down with a mysterious, pneumonia-like illness after being exposed to bats.

"Virologist Jonathan Latham and molecular biologist Allison Wilson, both of the non-profit Bioscience Resource Project in Ithaca, arrived at their finding after translating a 66-page master's thesis from the Chinese medical doctor who treated the miners and sent their tissue samples to the Wuhan Institute of Virology for testing."