There would be incentives to experiment due to retrovirus elements and cancer (Ex., Baric growing bat coronaviruses in lung cancer cells [Calu-3], the same virus Daszak collected in Yunnan in 2011). A la Kennedy (The Real Anthony Fauci), we'll have to double-check the chronology for Fau Chi's desire for an HIV-1 vaccine.Everything your posting leans to genome manipulation. Hmmmmmmm.. Sounds to me like someone was playing in the lab for sure.
As Russian virologists (Marennikova, et al) have verified, monkeypox was in the local Bokenda chimpanzees.