Koopmans

“You are surrounded by highly pathogenic viruses in the wild and in farm animals,” said Marion Koopmans, head of virology at Erasmus Medical Center in the Netherlands.

Aarestrup and Koopmans note that they chemically treat samples to kill any organisms before studying them.

Several members of Koopmans’s team are delving into how climate change might affect the Netherlands, much of which is below sea level and prone to flooding.

He discerned a “troubling pattern” and a “lack of distinction” in the tweets from Koopmans, for example, who had expressed support for posting data in public databases.

Prof Marion Koopmans from Erasmus University in Rotterdam was part of the World Health Organization investigative team that went to Wuhan in 2020.