COVID-19 Is Man-Made, Claims French Virologist And Medicine Nobel Laureate Luc Montagnier

French virologist and medicine Nobel laureate, Luc Montagnier, has claimed that SARS-CoV-2 - the virus that has attacked the whole world is 'man-made' - and is the result of an attempt to manufacture a vaccine against the AIDS virus, in a Chinese laboratory.

Montagnier won the 2008 Nobel award in medicine along with two other scientists for the discovery of the AIDS virus. He said, ¡°Presence of elements of HIV and germ of malaria in the genome of coronavirus is highly suspect and the characteristics of the virus could not have arisen naturally.¡±

According to Montagnier, an 'industrial' accident took place in Wuhan National Biosafety Laboratory, since it specialises in these coronaviruses since early 2000s.

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The US has already began a probe into the matter of the global pandemic being a virus leak. US President Donald Trump said, ¡°More and more, we¡¯re hearing the story. We are doing a very thorough investigation.¡±

Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo, said, ¡°We¡¯re doing a full investigation of everything we can to learn how it is the case that this virus got away, got out into the world and now has created so much tragedy ¡ª so much death ¡ª here in the US and all around the world.¡±

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He added that the US was well-aware of the fact that the Wuhan lab ¡°contained highly contagious materials.¡±

Known for controversial statements, Montagnier has had two controversial research studies ¡ª electromagnetic waves emitted by DNA (DNA teleportation) and on the benefits of papaya in AIDS or Parkinson cure. Both were criticised by the scientific community.

However, French virologist, ?tienne Simon-Lori¨¨re, of the Institut Pasteur in Paris, nullified Montagnier's claims. He told AFP, ¡°That (His claims) does not make sense. These are very small elements that we find in other viruses of the same family, other coronaviruses in nature."

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This isn't the first time someone has mentioned about the theory that the COVID-19 is man-made. Theories about the virus being created by the Chinese government, possibly as a bioweapon to take control of the world, have been doing the rounds on social media ever since the pandemic came into being.

Medical experts have claimed that there was no was the virus could have been artificially made and that it was an animal-borne disease.