Peter Daszak is a good showman and salesman, but he also has ties to gain-of-function research. His name has appeared on at least one research paper in conjunction with the “Bat Lady” of the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
Sources:
- Peter Daszak. “What Diseases Come from Animals?” TEDMED. Runtime of embedded video: 29:05.
https://www.tedmed.com/talks/show?id=7047.
Presentation, Video. - October 27, 2010. Peter Daszak. “Animal-Borne Diseases? EcoHealth Alliance President Peter Daszak Cautions TEDMED Conference Attendees to ‘Be Afraid…Be Very Afraid.’” Cision PR Newswire.
https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/animal-borne-diseases-ecohealth-alliance-president-peter-daszak-cautions-tedmed-conference-attendees-to-be-afraidbe-very-afraid-105918313.html.
News.
Related:
- November 30, 2017. Ben Hu, Lei-Ping Zeng, Xing-Lou Yang, Xing-Yi Ge, Wei Zhang, Bei Li, Jia-Zheng Xie, Xu-Rui Shen, Yun-Zhi Zhang, Ning Wang, Dong-Sheng Luo, Xiao-Shuang Zheng, Mei-Niang Wang, Peter Daszak, Lin-Fa Wang, Jie Cui, and Zheng-Li Shi. “Discovery of a Rich Gene Pool of Bat SARS-Related Coronaviruses Provides New Insights into the Origin of SARS Coronavirus.” PLOS Pathogens 13 (11): e1006698.
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1006698.
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