A 2008 Nobel Prize recipient for discovering the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) has weighed in on the controversy about the origin of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), and insisted that it is laboratory-made.

Four days prior to US President Donald Trump's threat of new tariffs against Beijing,  claiming there is evidence linking the coronavirus to a lab in China's ground-zero city of Wuhan, French scientist Luc Montagnier who discovered HIV said COVID-19 was a creation of an expert.

Interviewed on the CNews channel in France, Montagnier asserted that the virus had been designed by molecular biologists, stating that it contains genetic elements of HIV, and that its characteristics could not have arisen naturally.

Asked by the CNews interviewer what the goal of these molecular biologists could be, Montagnier said it wasn’t clear. “My job,” he said, “is to expose the facts.”

Montagnier said that "he didn’t know who had done it, or why," but suggested that possibly the goal had been to make an AIDS vaccine."

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Other experts, however, are not buying Montagnier's explanation, with one even calling it "absurd."

Virologist Etienne Simon-Lorière from the Pasteur Institute in Paris said 

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to develop better polio vaccines by researching whether adding immune pressure against proteins found in the attenuated strains of the oral polio vaccine leads to the emergence of recombinant circulating vaccine-derived polioviruses
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go figure? I just have to think it for fucks sake, naturally its subsidised by Gates