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I do not know the full story, only that flu 1977 was a leak of some sort. Leaks happened at least 4-6 times with SARS1. An accidental leak at WIV, where many coronaviruses were studied in P2 or P3 conditions, is more likely than a natural origin for which no evidence was found.
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