A 2017 promotional video featured on the website of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), a top Chinese state-run research institute that administers the Wuhan lab, showed live bats held in cages inside the lab. In it, a researcher who wears blue surgical gloves was holding a bat and feeding it with a worm.

Peter Daszak, U.S. zoologist, one of the World Health Organization-led experts who went to Wuhan City to study the origin of the virus earlier this year: “Important error in this piece. No BATS were ‘sent to Wuhan lab for genetic analyses of viruses collected in the field. That’s not how this science works. We collect bat samples, send them to the lab. We RELEASE bats where we catch them!”

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He further stated that the article “describes work I’m the lead on & labs I’ve collaborated with for 15 yrs. They DO NOT have live or dead bats in them. There is no evidence anywhere that this happened. It’s an error that I hope will be corrected,” he said.

The WIV has filed at least two patents related to bat breeding. The first, filed in June 2018 and granted about half a year later, describes a bat rearing cage with a glass front door, hanger, feed opening, and water drinking tube, designed to enable bats “healthy growth and breeding under artificial condition.”

The second, filed last October, instructs researchers on how to raise wild bats to improve breeding and survival rate.

Besides engaging in “’gain of function’ research to engineer chimeric viruses,” the WIV has engaged in laboratory animal experiments on behalf of the Chinese military since at least 2017, according to the fact sheet. Gain-of-function research involves creating artificial viruses by adding new or enhanced capabilities for the purpose of studying what new pathogens could emerge and how to guard against them.

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(Excerpt from The Epoch Times. Article written by Eva Fu and Frank Yue. Photo by UnSplash)