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The Virus that Conquered the World with Prof Peter Doherty [S2 Ep.29]

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The Origin of the Coronavirus

The idea that coronofirus came from a lab used to be dismissed as something only a conspiracy theorist and nutjob could possibly think. But now it's, you know, many, many people think it's plausible. The first of them was the original sas virus, which came into humans. We've got four corona virusis circulating, four additional ones circulating since two thousand so what's gone in there? Well, i think it's largely due to the fact that we have seen an enormous increase in prosperity in china. And we're seeing a lot of passenger air travel and business air travel out of china. That's how these varases fly. They fly in planes

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