"All hypotheses remain open, but the focus is now on CReSA, a bunker containing dangerous pathogens located on the Bellaterra campus of the Autonomous University of Barcelona, in northeastern Spain. The laboratory, essential for the search for new vaccines and treatments, was undergoing some construction work and experimenting with the virus in late November, when the first wild boar infected with a very similar strain was found just a few hundred meters from the facility, which lacks double fencing."
"Is it unlikely that SARS-CoV-2 escaped from a laboratory? Yes, but it's damned possible, he warned on his blog in March 2021. Abad is the head of the biocontainment unit at the Animal Health Research Center (CReSA), the Barcelona institution that was searched this Thursday by the Spanish Civil Guard and the Mossos d'Esquadra (Catalan regional police) looking for evidence of a suspected leak of the African swine fever virus."
Xavier Abad reflected on the source of the COVID-19 pandemic when the virus had already killed nearly three million people. He warned a laboratory escape of SARS-CoV-2 is unlikely but possible. The Spanish Civil Guard and the Mossos d'Esquadra searched CReSA for evidence of a suspected African swine fever leak. CReSA is a biosafety level 3 facility on the Bellaterra campus that was undergoing construction and conducting experiments in late November. The first infected wild boar with a similar strain was found a few hundred meters from the facility, which lacks double fencing. Most Spanish experts say African swine fever is not easily airborne. At least 435 laboratory-acquired infections have been recorded in the last half-century.
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