DISINFO: Coronavirus could be an American biological attack
SUMMARY
Coronavirus may be caused by an American biological attack that targeted China first, then Iran, then the rest of the world.
RESPONSE
Conspiracy theories about the 2019-nCoV coronavirus.
There is no evidence that suggests that the novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) is used as a weapon against other states.
It comes from a family of viruses that include other viruses such as SARS and MERS. It was first reported in the Chinese city of Wuhan in central China and has been rapidly spreading with new cases being reported in the Asia-Pacific region as well as Europe, North America and the Middle East, causing 3282 deaths up until 9 March 2020.
You can see other examples in our database, such as claims that Bill Gates and George Soros are sponsoring it, that it is a UK, US or NATO creation and that the Americans have its cure, that it is an artificial disease which specifically targets Chinese DNA, that it was created with economic goals while big pharma companies are spreading panic for their own profit, that it is a biological weapon against Russia and China, that it will wipe out Ukraine’s population in a few days or that it was predicted by Nostradamus and others.