‘The Seeker’, a self-taught expert in searching the back alleys of the web far beyond the well-lit places, was looking at research papers to find some clues regarding the virus.
The group found out that the genetic sequence for RaTG13 perfectly matched a small piece of genetic code from a paper written by Shi Zhengli- an expert on bat viruses at Wuhan Institute of Virology years earlier, from a virus the WIV had found in a Yunnan bat.
Digging further, the group found old news stories, and connected RaTG13 to a mineshaft in Mojiang County, in Yunnan Province, where, in 2012, six men shoveling bat guano had developed pneumonia which killed three of them.
Shi Zhengli claimed a fungus in the cave had killed the miners. The DRASTICs, of course, doubted her claim.
Driven by passionate curiosity, The Seeker then discovered CNKI — a massive Chinese database of academic journals and theses. He, then, searched the database using Chinese characters for ‘Mojiang’ in combination with many other relevant words with the help of Google Translate.
In May 2020, The Seeker found a 60-page master's thesis written by a student at Kunming Medical University in 2013 titled "The Analysis of 6 Patients with Severe Pneumonia Caused by Unknown Viruses."
The thesis described in exhaustive detail the conditions and step-by-step treatment of the miners who got sick in 2012. The suspected culprit? SARS-like [coronavirus] from the Chinese horseshoe bat or other bats, noted the thesis.
The Seeker then found a second thesis from a PhD student at the Chinese CDC confirming the above information. Four of the miners had tested positive for antibodies from a SARS-like infection, and the WIV was involved in testing samples from the patients.
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