Rewarded in 2008 with a Nobel Prize in Medicine for his discovery of the AIDS virus, the French virologist Luc Montagnier makes a controversial hypothesis on the origin of the Covid-19.

In an interview at the site Why doctor? , April 16, the professor explains that he does not believe that the Covid-19 comes from a contamination in a market of wild animals of Wuhan . “He is a beautiful legend, it is not possible. The virus is coming out of a Wuhan laboratory, ”he says.

“The Wuhan city laboratory has specialized in these coronaviruses since the early 2000s. They have expertise in this area,” he says. The professor explains having analyzed “in the smallest details” the sequence with his mathematician colleague Jean-Claude Perrez. “We were not the first, since a group of Indian researchers tried to publish a study which shows that the complete genome of this coronavirus [has] sequences of another virus, which is HIV, the virus AIDS ”, he explains.

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The researcher says that the Indian research group had to retract after its publication. He asserts that “scientific truth always ends up emerging”. According to him, the HIV sequence was inserted into the genome of the coronavirus in an attempt to make an HIV vaccine . “It is the work of a sorcerer’s apprentice,” he comments. More @ Source