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Billy Bostickson 🏴👁&👁 🆓 Profile picture
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Sep 17, 2021 • 13 tweets • 6 min read • Read on X
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@R_H_Ebright comment sums it up nicely

The new viruses--named BANAL-20-52, BANAL-20-103, BANAL 20-236, BANAL 20-116, and BANAL 20-147--all are *less similar* than RaTG13 to SARS-CoV-02.

BANAL indeed.
But maybe not so BANAL after all...

From supplementary files

assets.researchsquare.com/files/rs-87196…
quite a long way from Wuhan though, even further than Mojiang ;)
Limestone Karsts of SE Asia
researchgate.net/publication/21…
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feuang_Di…
DISTRIBUTION AND CHARACTER OF KARST IN THE LAO PDR.

researchgate.net/publication/23…
Can someone break the news to Eddie Holmes gently?

"None of these bat viruses harbors a furin cleavage site in the spike"

"Identification of strains of animal origin with a furin cleavage site may require additional sampling"

researchsquare.com/article/rs-871…
More on Furin Cleavage Site

However, we found no furin site in any of these viruses. Lack of furin cleavage may be explained by by acquisition of the furin cleavage site through passages of the virus in an alternate host"
"Finally, where these intergenomic recombinations arose and the epidemiological link with the first human cases remains to be established"
US DoD and Pasteur Institute were there in Feuang District where the closest bat coronavirus, Banal 20 52, came from, back in 2017, bat sampling....where they sampled several Rhinolophus Malayanus...
pasteur.la/project-carrie…
Bat "contacts" tested in Vientiane Province in 2020

thelancet.com/pdfs/journals/…
Laos is the flavour of the day it seems...
PREDICT 2016

All cov sequences generated from frugivorous bats (family Pteropodidae) clustered with other bat βCoVs of lineage D, whereas one coronavirus from Pipistrellus coromandra fell in the lineage C of βCoVs which also includes the MERS-CoV.

sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

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Billy Bostickson 🏴👁&👁 🆓 Profile picture
Jan 29
@Ticklicker56 @angie_rasmussen @Dissenting2020 @DrStrangeLovett @Rebecca21951651 @All_New_to_This @VaughnMises @R_H_Ebright @Florin_Uncovers @ban_epp_gofroc @MJnanostretch @Muller_Lab @SolidEvidence @ydeigin @ciukzwil @tgof137 @StavaRune @VBruttel @FondueMean @tom335363 @BioSRP @stevenemassey @jbloom_lab @BallouxFrancois @Ayjchan @mattwridley Not sure what they have done since Burgdorfer's "swiss agent" experiments, apart from building tick moats & annoying locals

bitterrootstar.com/2013/01/about-…

Dr. Rasmussen can tell us or she can ask Dr. Trout

hcn.org/articles/in-mo…
@Ticklicker56 @angie_rasmussen @Dissenting2020 @DrStrangeLovett @Rebecca21951651 @All_New_to_This @VaughnMises @R_H_Ebright @Florin_Uncovers @ban_epp_gofroc @MJnanostretch @Muller_Lab @SolidEvidence @ydeigin @ciukzwil @tgof137 @StavaRune @VBruttel @FondueMean @tom335363 @BioSRP @stevenemassey @jbloom_lab @BallouxFrancois @Ayjchan @mattwridley RML expertise in biodefense inlcudes tick & flea agents, so I doubt she would want to discuss how many ticks they have or what they inject them with.

federalregister.gov/documents/2004…

In the bad old days they injected them with yellow fever & other nasties for dispersal by planes.
@Ticklicker56 @angie_rasmussen @Dissenting2020 @DrStrangeLovett @Rebecca21951651 @All_New_to_This @VaughnMises @R_H_Ebright @Florin_Uncovers @ban_epp_gofroc @MJnanostretch @Muller_Lab @SolidEvidence @ydeigin @ciukzwil @tgof137 @StavaRune @VBruttel @FondueMean @tom335363 @BioSRP @stevenemassey @jbloom_lab @BallouxFrancois @Ayjchan @mattwridley Also work of Jeffrey M. Grabowski

Biology of Vector-Borne Viruses Section, Laboratory of Virology, RML

Work on tick-borne pathogens at the Virology Lab at RML is funded by the Intramural Research Program, NIAID, NIH

Not for long, I think! @DrJBhattacharya
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Jan 20
1. Latest Victim of Flo Debarre's "Doxxng" Crusade

Is ME!

I got a disturbing & threatening email, mentioning:

"room for negotiation about the name"

"1st story is often the one that sticks, even if it's not accurate..your chance to negotiate terms"

"continue over Signal" Image
2. Le Monde

The reporter she is working with, William Audureau @Willvs , seems a principled journalist and did not know of her nefarious doxxing activities against me and other members of DRASTIC and our supporters in Academia, of which he dissaproves. Image
@Willvs 3. Best way to deal with bullies is to expose them!

I thus emailed CNRS, Cyber Security Office & the Minister of the Interior to complain

presidence.secretariat@cnrs.fr
presse@cnrs.fr ,
b.retailleau@senat .fr @BrunoRetailleau
contact@cecyf.fr
fraude-bretic@interieur.gouv.fr Image
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Jan 2
An unexpected result in a UK Porton Down Study

"Participant 12" (maybe a soldier at Aldershot). after infection with SC2, over time experienced a substantial number of mutations suggestive of rapid evolution.

Yet he was healthy & not immunocompetent?

genomemedicine.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…
They don't consider the possibility of quasispecies viral swarms as a possible factor in Participant 12?

Quasispecies implications for virus persistence (Domingo, 1999)

pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC71…

Quasispecies theory & emerging viruses
(Sardanyes, 2024)

nature.com/articles/s4429… Image
Overview of Viral Quasispecies

sciencedirect.com/topics/immunol…

Quite good Wikipedia Page

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viral_qua…

Viral quasispecies (Andino & Domingo, 2015)

sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Historical Perspective on the Quasispecies Concept (Domingo, 2021)

annualreviews.org/docserver/full…
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Dec 29, 2024
🧵DTIC MIL WUHAN/COVID-19 DOCUMENTS

Just dumping these here like Santa!

Maybe you will find something of interest?

Maybe a lump of coal or a potato!

1. Novel Coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19): Q&A on Global Implications and Responses (May 14, 2020)

apps.dtic.mil/sti/pdfs/AD117…
2. Award Number: W81XWH-11-2-0148 (2013)

WIV, Wuhan University, Le Duc and GNL mentioned

TITLE: National Biocontainment Training Center

PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR: James LeDuc, PhD

University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston

apps.dtic.mil/sti/pdfs/ADA61…Image
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3. Features, Evaluation, & Treatment of Coronavirus

Tedious Paper

March 1, 2021.

apps.dtic.mil/sti/pdfs/AD112…
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Dec 24, 2024
1. Panama Canal in the News

Historical Perspective

On the many workers' lives lost trying to build it:

Who were they and where did they come from?
2. First Attempt (French)

In the 1880s, the French tried but failed to build a Panama Canal.

They finally gave up in 1889, after years of fighting a recalcitrant landscape, ferocious disease and spiralling costs

AND the deaths of 22,000 workers! .

archive.ph/8FqKiImage
3. From Suez to Panama

Ferdinand de Lesseps's success in building the Suez Canal in 1869 was utterly derailed by the abysmal failure of his subsequent effort to build the Panama Canal due to disease.

Bankruptcy!

800 thousand people had invested their savings in the project! Image
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Dec 19, 2024
1. Russian Biolab Claims: A Controversial Topic

Good luck using your critical thinking skills to seperate wheat from chaff so that you can decide what is propaganda & what is fact.

Of course the easy options are to dismiss everything as lies or to swallow everything as fact.
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