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Baric Transcribed Interview (Redacted), pp.85-86 · baric_ti:utt:00758

Date: 2026-04-10 09:00 (day precision)
Type: transcript segment · interview
recipient: Christina Salazar, Harry Kazenoff, David T. Lambeth III, William Henderson, Clark Ervin, Jake Greenberg
speaker: Ralph S. Baric
Topics: Vaccines

I would be surprised if they weren't working on it. I don't know if they published on it or not. Linda Saif has swine models, gnotobiotic swine models that she can study viral pathogenesis and vaccine DC.Scheduling@LexitasLegal.com performance. Really her area of expertise. I was glad. I like her a lot. We helped her students develop a molecular clone and then we didn't work on it anymore.

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Linda Saif has swine models, gnotobiotic swine models that she can study viral pathogenesis and vaccine DC.Scheduling@LexitasLegal.com performance.	own voice, substantive	speaker_own	asserts

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Linda Saif has swine models, gnotobiotic swine models that she can study viral pathogenesis and vaccine DC.Scheduling@LexitasLegal.com performance.

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2026-04-10 09:00 Ralph S. Baric open

That's a virus that evolved, that emerged in Europe, I don't remember exactly what year. It moved across Europe and got into Asia and Southeast Asia around 2008 or so. It caused massive pandemics in China, and then eventually it arrived here in the United States in 2012.
2026-04-10 09:00 Christina Salazar open

Did you do any work on that?
2026-04-10 09:00 Ralph S. Baric open

We worked with Linda Saif's group to develop a molecular clone for porcine epidemic diarrhea virus.
2026-04-10 09:00 Christina Salazar open

And did WIV, that you know of, have that, or were they working on that?
2026-04-10 09:00 Ralph S. Baric

I would be surprised if they weren't working on it. I don't know if they published on it or not. Linda Saif has swine models, gnotobiotic swine models that she can study viral pathogenesis and vaccine DC.Scheduling@LexitasLegal.com performance. Really her area of expertise. I was glad. I like her a lot. We helped her students develop a molecular clone and then we didn't work on it anymore.
2026-04-10 09:00 Christina Salazar open

Okay. I'm going to show you another email here that you're on. It's dated October 24, 2018. It's from Fang Li to you. [Exhibit No. 2 shown.]
2026-04-10 09:00 Christina Salazar open

And it says, "It was nice chatting with you in Wuhan. My student" -- and I don't know how to pronounce this individuals name --
2026-04-10 09:00 Ralph S. Baric open

2018. Okay. What's this about?
2026-04-10 09:00 Christina Salazar open

-- "has emailed you the information about PEDV. My postdoc, C-H-U-M-I-N-G, will email you the information about the MERS-like CoV-422 soon." Do you recall that email?

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