COVID-19 first appeared in a group of Chinese miners in 2012, scientists say

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COVID-19 first appeared in a group of Chinese miners in 2012, scientists say​

By Isabel Vincent
August 15, 2020

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.

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Latham told The Post that the coronavirus “almost certainly escaped” from the Wuhan lab.

In April 2012, six miners in the Mojiang mine in southwestern China’s Yunnan province fell ill after spending more than 14 days removing bat feces. Three eventually died.

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COVID-19 first appeared in a group of Chinese miners in 2012, scientists say

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 …

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They never really proved totally where the Spanish flu came from and indeed, it probably wasn’t even Spanish. And there is a lot of smoke on this whole topic.