China’s ‘bat woman’ researcher warns coronavirus is just ‘tip of iceberg’

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China’s “bat woman” researcher warns that the deadly coronavirus surfacing now is “just the tip of the iceberg” in terms of what humans may soon face without a global effort to prevent similar infectious outbreaks.

“If we want to prevent human beings from suffering from the next infectious-disease outbreak, we must go in advance to learn of these unknown viruses c

arried by wild animals in nature and give early warnings,” Shi Zhengli, a top Chinese scientist specializing in viral transmissions from bats, told CGTN in an interview that aired Monday.

“If we don’t study [the viruses], there will possibly be another outbreak,” warned Shi, whose was dubbed “bat woman” by the press because of her research involving the mammals.

she was born on the 26th...this story comes out 1 day before her 56th birthday!

 33 x 4=132..thirty three=156

Event 201 anyone...

I did more research on her..found out that she was "missing" according to the media

China's 'bat woman' Shi Zhengli goes missing

May 06, 2020, 09.33 PM(IST)

Articled posted on 5/6 !..at 9:33

She is a renowned virologist. She is an expert on coronavirus in bats. She is the supposed director of the Wuhan Institute of Virology. Shi Zhengli may have the answer to the question the world is asking. Did the coronavirus originate in her lab? But Shi Zhengli is missing.

This is just one of the many things that's mysterious about her. Shi Zhengli is called China's bat woman. Shi began her studies on bats in 2004. She has studied all kinds of bats. The ones picked from caves. The ones from the subtropical regions in the south. Her research was aimed at understanding the SARS outbreak.

She made a breakthrough in 2013. Shi Zhengli found bat faeces with the virus 96.2 per cent identical to the SARS COV-2. Yes, this is the same virus that caused COVID-19. In 2013, Shi began altering parts of the coronavirus. She wanted to study whether coronavirus can be transmitted from one species to another.

In 2015, she concluded that the SARS-like virus can jump from bats to human. On December 30, 2020, Shi received some samples from healthcare workers in Wuhan. The samples were from patients in Wuhan who were showing atypical pneumonia.This was a new coronavirus. The Wuhan coronavirus. By the time Shi Zhengli started analyzing the samples. It was too late. The virus had spread to the rest of China and within months, it had crossed borders.

Did this virus escape from Shi's lab? Only Shi has the answer. But she is missing. But on February 2, 2020, the virologist re-appeared online on WeChat.