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White House medical adviser Anthony Fauci urged China to share the medical records of nine people who suffered from a coronavirus-like illness before the pandemic began, and said they could help

determine

if the virus could have arisen from a laboratory.

The lab leak theory has gained steam in recent weeks after reports that six miners had fallen ill in 2012 and three researchers from the Wuhan Institute of Virology had been hospitalized in November 2019 with

symptoms consistent with covid-19

- albeit also with those of a "seasonal infection" - after visiting a cave with bats in China's Yunnan province.

In an interview published Thursday in the Financial Times, Fauci said these medical records could answer

crucial questions about the origins

of COVID-19 in Wuhan, where the pandemic that has killed more than 3.6 million people worldwide began. .

"I would like to see the medical records of the three people who reportedly fell ill in 2019," said the immunologist.

"Did they really get sick, and if so, what did they get sick from?"

Fauci affirmed that it is "totally conceivable that

the origin of the covid-19 is in that cave"

that the team of experts visited, and that "it has begun to spread naturally or has passed through the laboratory."

In May, it had affirmed that although many specialists thought that it was "more probable" that the virus is

"a natural event",

they were not "100% certain".

China, which is fiercely trying to dismiss the laboratory's hypothesis, accused Washington of spreading "conspiracy theories" and denied US media reports about the hospitalization of researchers in Wuhan.

The natural origin thesis, considered the most probable by a joint study of experts from the World Health Organization (WHO) and Chinese who visited Wuhan earlier this year, maintains that the virus

appeared in bats

before being transmitted to humans. , probably via another animal.

Beijing claims the virus left the US

On Friday, the Chinese Foreign Ministry relied on that team's findings to reject Fauci's remarks, citing

unsubstantiated claims

that the virus first appeared in the US military laboratory at Fort Detrick.

Asked about the possibility of Beijing sharing medical records, ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin referred to a statement from the Wuhan Institute of Virology in March.

"We hope that people who do not believe in conspiracy theories, who respect the facts and the truth can find factual answers in this statement," Wang said.

Last week, President Joe Biden asked the United States intelligence services to prepare a report within 90 days on the origin of Covid-19.

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