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April 2012
- Six miners in Yunnan hospitalised with symptoms very similar to a SARS-CoV-2 infection after catching coronavirus strain RaTG13/CoV4991. Three miners died. Wuhan Institute of Virology researchers collected tissue samples, and later visited the caves to acquire more material.
October 2014
- US government [https://www.nature.com/articles/514411a'>ceases funding</a> of gain-of-function research that makes viruses more dangerous, pending further risk assessment.