Scientists at Wuhan lab in COVID probe admitted being bitten by bats | New York Post

Scientists at the Chinese lab eyed as a possible source of the coronavirus pandemic were previously filmed getting bitten and spattered with blood while handling bats without protection, according to reports.

The state-run TV footage showed researchers at the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) disregarding gloves, masks and other PPE while handling bats and collecting feces in the field, Taiwan News first noted.

In one section, virus expert Cui Jie related how a bat’s fangs once went right through his glove, describing it as feeling “like being jabbed with a needle,” the outlet noted.

The video — first broadcast in China on Dec. 29, 2017 — then cut to a person’s limb badly swollen from an apparent bat bite. Scientists also admitted getting spattered with blood during the research, according to the Sun.

As one scientist was shown handling samples with bare hands, the narrator noted how the risk of injury “still exists,” and that team members got a rabies vaccine before each field sampling, the Taiwan report said.

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[stephensecord]

If that's the level of protection and safety they excise in the field, its probably worse in the lab. Poor practices = poor results.

[neobliss]

This news was released not leaked remember that.

[TheChopf]

They are working pretty hard to make it look like an accident when we all know they released this upon the world intentionally.

[DK_tk]

And Biden just shut down the commission looking into this. I understand the party’s hate each other. But the fact is it’d be helpful to know what happen.

[BooksofHighStrangeness]

Wow. Look what happens when real journalists do what they ought. Thank you.

[noneyabizz]

Doubt.

I'm sure they spread it, but don't believe this accidental nonsense.

[countchocula]

This takes me back to when Ozzy bit the head off a bat 🤟

[Elchupacabra]

The propaganda machine is running at full speed

[bulldogcomputer]

BS! It was bio-engineered in that lab...

[theanarchist]

Wow. A perfect lie. Wow. I mean, I could not have thought of that lie in hundred years.

[ZK]

So, we are suppose to believe that they were bitten by bats, now that the microscope is on them, along with a random picture of an arm with marks?

[mopthermopther]

Did you know Chinese people eat bats ? They actually eat more bats than rice.

[dragchain]

Lied for over a year about this disease but now you’ll tell the truth 🤣🤣🤣

[robertgarriott]

Wow they must have Scientist bats that manipulated there own bite. Now that is worth looking in to. These animals are getting smarter all the time. They must have a scientific bat cave lab. That is just incredible.

[DuyTran-dhuz]

G20 said: It is possible to reallocate $650 billion to support poor countries to fight the epidemic. I pray the G20 declares what to do for Vietnam's epidemic, people are zoned, unemployed, hungry. If the G20 gives, all the money goes to the mandarins' houses, but the people are zoned and have no coins. Mr. Trump's money for officials also swallowed

[apexslider]

This feels more like a story being started to “prove” it came from bats, not a lab. Or am I missing something?

[jerff]

What about the lab in Ft. Detrick in Maryland, USA ? Why won't the US be open about their lab ?

[goodnews]

Ok, blame it on a VAMPIRE bat, you big dunce!!!

[zblade]

Winnie the pooh would have not allowed this if he had been there

[aliasrose]

Well they may have created covid, but we funded its creation apparently.