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Why The U.S. Government Stopped Funding A Research Project On Bats And Coronaviruses |
2021-04-28 |
[NPR] The U.S. government has suddenly terminated funding for a years-long research project in China that many experts say is vital to preventing the next major coronavirus outbreak. The project was run by a U.S. nonprofit called EcoHealth Alliance. For more than a decade, the group has been sending teams to China to trap bats, collect samples of their blood, saliva and feces, and then check those samples for new coronaviruses that could spark the next global pandemic. The idea is to identify locations that need to be monitored, come up with strategies to prevent spillover of the virus into human populations and get a jump on creating vaccines and treatments. Already the project has identified hundreds of coronaviruses, including one very similar to the virus behind the current outbreak. Same research topic and other articles of potential interest. |
Posted by:Besoeker |
#4 Perhaps, just perhaps, the project was stopped because "Mission Accomplished" |
Posted by: Grampaw Phavish2227 2021-04-28 15:41 |
#3 What is it about Chinese bats that makes them so interesting? Why can't we study North American bats and save the air fare? |
Posted by: jpal 2021-04-28 14:25 |
#2 I thought this was one of St. Fauxi's pet (pun somewhat intended) proejcts. |
Posted by: M. Murcek 2021-04-28 09:41 |
#1 Evidently someone in the US Gov't recently began to listen. Perhaps 'grant funding' our very own demise is no longer a conspiracy theory. Politico - 8 March 2021: In 2018, Diplomats Warned of Risky Coronavirus Experiments in a Wuhan Lab. No One Listened. |
Posted by: Besoeker 2021-04-28 03:10 |