Posted on 11/19/2023 10:17:43 AM PST by John Semmens
In September, the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party issued a report disclosing that a lab staffed by Chinese nationals has been covertly operating in Reedley, California. Among the diseases found at the site were SARS-CoV-2, Chlamydia, HIV, Ecoli, Ebola, Streptococcus pneumoniae, Hepatitis, Dengue, Rubella and Malaria. The illegal lab was established by Jiabei Zhu. Zhu entered the US illegally after fleeing from a $330 million judgment against him for "theft of intellectual property" in Canada. Zhu defended his crimes as "necessary to combat American Imperialism and aggression against China."
Meanwhile, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded Colorado State University (CSU) $6.7 million to build a new lab in partnership with EcoHealth Alliance (EHA). Greg Ebel, a CSU virologist, insisted that "though EHA has previously sent funding to the Wuhan Lab in China for gain-of-function research on the coronavirus, this grant isn't for funding a bioweapons lab. We're not working with Ebola or Nipah virus or any of these things." However, the grant explicitly says the money would be used to study Covid, Ebola, and Nipah viruses.
Newly appointed NIH Director Monica Bertagnolli admitted that "Ebel's disclaimer was not entirely candid. However, research on deadly pathogens is essential if we hope to develop successful vaccines and cures. This research must not be impeded by excessive public fear of the kind of unforeseen consequences that arose from the escape of the coronavirus from the Wuhan Lab. Clearly, China is going to continue to try to develop effective bioweapons. We must do the same. It is unfortunate that our efforts have to run a gauntlet of criticism sparked by distrust of our government's motives and competency during the Covid pandemic."
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