Baric Transcribed Interview (Redacted) — page 96

DC.Scheduling@LexitasLegal.com proposed to do intervention studies in the bat caves, and they had said they wanted to do this in a more controlled setting. MS. SALAZAR: In the laboratory? DR. BARIC: In a laboratory setting. MS. SALAZAR: So when you say in a bat cave, what does that mean? DR. BARIC: It means one approach was to take double- stranded 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. MS. SALAZAR: But where was that portion? So I think -- DR. 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. MS. SALAZAR: I recall that there was some Michigan -- DR. BARIC: Yeah. There was a Michigan group that had these kind of sprayers --