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Baric Transcribed Interview (Redacted), pp.120-121 · baric_ti:utt:01044

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: EcoHealth Alliance funding and grants Gates Foundation involvement Natural origin / zoonotic spillover

Of anything? Oh, probably. Well, I had a research assistant professor back in 2010 do a study in bat caves in Maryland as part of the Regional Centers for DC.Scheduling@LexitasLegal.com Excellence in Biodefense. It wasn't my grant. It was his grant. And he collected bat samples from bat hibernacula in the Maryland/West Virginia border and did deep sequencing on them. So he published that, and I believe he put all the sequences available to the public. But I can't 100 percent say for certain that he did that, since it was about 15 years ago or so. So there may be sequences there. We have sequenced fecal samples from norovirusinfected patients that we may not have published the sequences of those noroviruses yet. As part of our grant with Eva Harris, and the Philippines study, where Sanofi Pasteur vaccinated kids in the Philippines and a bunch of them got infected, my lab sequenced all the viruses that were present in those patients, and that has not yet been published. So the short answer is yes, I do. If you're asking the broader question, do I have unpublished sequences for sarbecoviruses -- unpublished. Unpublished means that --

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

Is it okay? I put a market on your paper.
2026-04-10 09:00 Christina Salazar open

Do you have unpublished sequences?
2026-04-10 09:00 Ralph S. Baric open

Of --
2026-04-10 09:00 Christina Salazar open

Of anything.
2026-04-10 09:00 Ralph S. Baric

Of anything? Oh, probably. Well, I had a research assistant professor back in 2010 do a study in bat caves in Maryland as part of the Regional Centers for DC.Scheduling@LexitasLegal.com Excellence in Biodefense. It wasn't my grant. It was his grant. And he collected bat samples from bat hibernacula in the Maryland/West Virginia border and did deep sequencing on them. So he published that, and I believe he put all the sequences available to the public. But I can't 100 percent say for certain that he did that, since it was about 15 years ago or so. So there may be sequences there. We have sequenced fecal samples from norovirusinfected patients that we may not have published the sequences of those noroviruses yet. As part of our grant with Eva Harris, and the Philippines study, where Sanofi Pasteur vaccinated kids in the Philippines and a bunch of them got infected, my lab sequenced all the viruses that were present in those patients, and that has not yet been published. So the short answer is yes, I do. If you're asking the broader question, do I have unpublished sequences for sarbecoviruses -- unpublished. Unpublished means that --
2026-04-10 09:00 Christina Salazar open

Not publicly available.
2026-04-10 09:00 Ralph S. Baric open

Yeah, right. So the answer is no. I have sequences for sarbecoviruses that we've recovered that we have not published yet, but we got those sequences from the published literature.
2026-04-10 09:00 Christina Salazar open

Okay. And have you ever been asked not to publish a sequence? DC.Scheduling@LexitasLegal.com
2026-04-10 09:00 Ralph S. Baric open

I have chosen not to publish some work.

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