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Baric Transcribed Interview (Redacted), p.96 · baric_ti:utt:00843

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

Well, that would've had to have been done in China because it was based on the strains that would be found in the cave complex that they were doing their discovery work.

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

In a laboratory setting.
2026-04-10 09:00 Christina Salazar open

So when you say in a bat cave, what does that mean?
2026-04-10 09:00 Ralph S. Baric open

It means one approach was to take doublestranded RNA and spray it in the bat cave and then induce innate immune responses in bats, so that those innate immune responses would control virus infection and virus titers would go down. So the idea would be the soldiers, before they went into a cave, they may spray the cave to lower the titer of the virus in the cave so it's less likely that they'd be infected. DARPA has kind of wild experiments.
2026-04-10 09:00 Christina Salazar open

But where was that portion? So I think --
2026-04-10 09:00 Ralph S. Baric

Well, that would've had to have been done in China because it was based on the strains that would be found in the cave complex that they were doing their discovery work.
2026-04-10 09:00 Christina Salazar open

I recall that there was some Michigan --
2026-04-10 09:00 Ralph S. Baric open

Yeah. There was a Michigan group that had these kind of sprayers -- DC.Scheduling@LexitasLegal.com
2026-04-10 09:00 Christina Salazar open

But that was part --
2026-04-10 09:00 Ralph S. Baric open

Yeah, that was part of it, but the Michigan group also had a vaccine vector where we would put in viral antigens to try to immunize the bats.

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