



"The Institute has patent number 10130701 which covers the development of a weakened form of the coronavirus that could potentially be used as a vaccine to prevent respiratory disease in birds and other animals. (…) We have not yet developed a vaccine, but research is in progress. "





The patent established in 2015, cited by several conspiracy sites, therefore does not concern a strain of coronavirus which would affect humans. Finally, Pirbright claims that the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation did not fund this patent. Instead, it funds other Pirbright work, such as the study of diseases in livestock and animal immunology. To say that "Bill Gates funded the Pirbright Institute, which has a patent on the coronavirus", is therefore very dishonest: the foundation did not fund this patent on the one hand, and this coronavirus has nothing to do with the 2019-nCov on the other hand.



