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2020-04-23 China-Japan-Koreas
Why US outsourced bat virus research to Wuhan
Full story on Asia Times (at link) has active links and references all through the story. Go there if you want to dig deeper. David Goldman (major owner in Asia Times) told an ex-Slashdot moderator he stands by the author on this. (yes the author does have a history of supporting the CCP).
[AsiaTimes] US-funded $3.7 million project approved by Trump's Covid-19 guru Dr Anthony Fauci in 2015 after US ban imposed on 'monster-germ' research.

The US National Institutes of Health (NIH) funded bat-coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague)
...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men...
 research in the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China to the tune of US$3.7 million, a recent article in the British newspaper Daily Mail revealed.

Back in October 2014, the US government had placed a federal moratorium on gain-of-function (GOF) research — altering natural pathogens to make them more deadly and infectious — as a result of rising fears about a possible pandemic caused by an accidental or deliberate release of these genetically engineered monster germs.

This was in part due to lab accidents at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in July 2014 that raised questions about biosafety at US high-containment labs.

At that time, the CDC had closed two labs and halted some biological shipments in the wake of several incidents in which highly pathogenic microbes were mishandled by US government laboratories: an accidental shipment of live anthrax, the discovery of forgotten live smallpox samples and a newly revealed incident in which a dangerous influenza strain was accidentally shipped from the CDC to another lab.

A CDC internal report described how scientists failed to follow proper procedures to ensure samples were inactivated before they left the lab, and also found "multiple other problems" with operating procedures in the anthrax lab.

As such in October 2014, because of public health concerns, the US government banned all federal funding on efforts to weaponize three viruses — influenza, Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) and severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS).

In the face of a moratorium in the US, Dr Anthony Fauci — the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) and currently the leading doctor in the US Coronavirus Task Force — outsourced in 2015 the GOF research to China’s Wuhan lab and licensed the lab to continue receiving US government funding.

The Wuhan lab is now at the center of scrutiny for possibly releasing the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus and causing the global Covid-19 pandemic.

It is understandable that the Chinese lab likely struggled with safety issues given the fact US labs share similar problems, and indeed in January 2018 the US Embassy in Beijing sent cables warning about the safety of the Wuhan lab and asked for help.

Additionally, the embassy warned that researchers "showed that various SARS-like coronaviruses can interact with ACE2, the human receptor identified for SARS-coronavirus," meaning bat coronaviruses can be transmitted to humans to cause SARS-like diseases.
Posted by trailing wife 2020-04-23 02:40|| || Front Page|| [9 views ]  Top
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#1 Lets start with "Why US outsourced".
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-04-23 03:15||   2020-04-23 03:15|| Front Page Top

#2 /\ Same reason the electronic monitoring of Candidate Donald Trump was outsourced. A work-around, a circumvention of existing US law.
Posted by Besoeker 2020-04-23 03:23||   2020-04-23 03:23|| Front Page Top

#3 More DS (can stand for Deepstate or Dip $hit, whichever is preferred) hijinks? It does look like another work-around of U.S. laws.
Posted by JohnQC 2020-04-23 08:33||   2020-04-23 08:33|| Front Page Top

#4 It's obvious no one really watches this stuff closely:

8 May 2007 Excerpt: At this time a unique opportunity was available to review statistical data on influenza, (a program to computerize disease information to derive trends, cycles and predictions had already been initiated under a CIA Project called BLACKFLAG); the current epidemic in Hong Kong was causing the highest incidence since the first Asian Type A2 epidemic of 1957. While the epidemic appeared to be progressing in a new way, initial curiosity subsided when a laboratory report from Hong Kong identified the strain as the common Type A2 variety.
Posted by Besoeker 2020-04-23 08:42||   2020-04-23 08:42|| Front Page Top

#5 Link to excerpt at #4 found here.
Posted by Besoeker 2020-04-23 08:44||   2020-04-23 08:44|| Front Page Top

#6 Why? How about asking Obozo?
Posted by Bobby 2020-04-23 09:12||   2020-04-23 09:12|| Front Page Top

#7 Yeah, nice framing it as a Trump administration decisions.
Posted by swksvolFF 2020-04-23 10:14||   2020-04-23 10:14|| Front Page Top

#8 Inasmuch as vaccination was not practical, an antiflu drug, amantadine HCL, which had been shown to help prevent the disease was recommended for these teams. During February 1971

Not all bad, some side-effects might be desirable for old codgers and the economy: unusual urges including gambling, sexual, spending money, binge eating, and the inability to control them.
Posted by JohnQC 2020-04-23 10:40||   2020-04-23 10:40|| Front Page Top

#9 (1) Closer to the contagion reservoir; (2) cheap labor; (3) far from US lawyers; (4) 'kickback' bribes to Chinese interests (check the billing records for money laundering); and did we say cheap labor?
Posted by magpie 2020-04-23 17:03||   2020-04-23 17:03|| Front Page Top

#10 5) Expendables
Posted by Frank G 2020-04-23 17:53||   2020-04-23 17:53|| Front Page Top

#11 "As such in October 2014, because of public health concerns, the US government banned all federal funding on efforts to weaponize three viruses — influenza, Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) and severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS)."

If so did we support Wuhan research on same? Without federal funding, how did this happen?
Posted by daniel  2020-04-23 18:30||   2020-04-23 18:30|| Front Page Top

#12 Because the Obama administration brought us Fast and Furious, Uranium One, Haiti Relief, Cash for Clunkers, Cash for Mullahs, Egyptian Coup and Rise of the MoBro, which brought us ISIS, the Death of Qadaffy and The Great Libyan Abyss, etc. etc.

In short, they got paid to?
Posted by swksvolFF 2020-04-23 19:50||   2020-04-23 19:50|| Front Page Top

#13 But what has Obama done for us lately?
Posted by Clem 2020-04-23 21:53||   2020-04-23 21:53|| Front Page Top

#14 Ref #11: Some government entities have virtually unlimited secret budgets. No need to names names, etc. Access comes with a price.
Posted by Besoeker 2020-04-23 22:39||   2020-04-23 22:39|| Front Page Top

#15 Oh, come on, don't be such a "sap".
Posted by Clem 2020-04-23 23:33||   2020-04-23 23:33|| Front Page Top

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