@R_H_Ebright More about Olival:
@R_H_Ebright Olival is the one who had that very sudden epiphany about the risk of BatCov infection from bat guano ***just one year *** after the 3 people working in the Mojiang mine died with SARS-CoV like symptoms and with IgG+ tests.
doi.org/10.3201/eid190… 
@R_H_Ebright Nothing was ever mentioned about these Mojiang deaths. Just one of these coincidences.
They had to rush a bit to do that paper, so they used bat guano samples that DARPA had collected back in 2006-7, before EHA was created and could replace them there.
vice.com/en_us/article/…
@R_H_Ebright The EHA put up a nice little simulation showing that there was 96% risk of epidemic spread in case of BatCov infection during bat guano collection.
Not sure how they got to that number - R0 and the likes are not clear.
static1.squarespace.com/static/5c7d60a… 
@R_H_Ebright I guess that what they were saying is that:
- Mojiang could have had serious consequences if it had happened in a more populated area
- Please NIH/USAID, send us the money.
- Mojiang ??? Never heard of it. 
@R_H_Ebright Anyway, for good measure the monks in that famous Thai bat cave have been harvesting bat guano every week-end for ages and selling it as fertilizers without any problem.
You need a Furin Cleavage Site to spice things up.
reuters.com/article/us-hea…
@R_H_Ebright So that's where DARPA may help. Let's go back to them again.
Please send the money.
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