Posted on 09/05/2024 1:27:29 PM PDT by Red Badger
The Chinese lab that the FBI believes likely leaked Covid-19 may have also released a 'highly evolved' strain of polio in 2014.
A bombshell new study suggests that this polio strain, which infected a four-year-old boy amid a wider viral outbreak in China's Anhui province, is '99 percent' identical to a polio variant that was stored 200 miles away, during that same time period, at the infamous Wuhan Institute of Virology.
Researchers at France's Pasteur Institute cannot say with certainty where this strain, dubbed 'WIV14,' originated. But they insisted two possibilities 'must be explored' — including the chance that WIV14 polio originated within the Wuhan institute itself.
'The findings underscore the shocking unsafe state of global virology research,' Harvard-trained molecular biologist Dr Richard Ebright, who was not involved with the research, told DailyMail.com.
The Pasteur researchers suspect that WIV14 polio, so named by the Wuhan scientists who first catalogued the strain, likely evolved from a well-preserved, 1950s strain of the virus used — almost exclusively — in vaccine production and laboratory settings.
The Wuhan lab's rough proximity to Anhui province and its burgeoning reputation for lax safety protocols have also added weight to this possible explanation.
If true, the theory would join a chorus of outcry over safety lapses at China's state-run infectious disease lab, whose US funding was cut last year by the Biden White House amid ongoing scrutiny on Capitol Hill over its role in the Covid-19 pandemic.
Although a global vaccination regime implemented across more than half a century has largely succeeded in eradicating the scourge of polio, cases have bloomed in conflict zones over the past few years, including Gaza, Afghanistan and Pakistan.
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Nuke it from orbit.
TIE FAUCI to the same rocket.
only idiots believe the fbi...
The FBI use to publicly lie about this being the source of the leak.
They were forced to admit the lab leak.
All major plagues in history had China as the source. MacArthur wanted to nuke China. Truman stopped him. Too bad.
Nothing is quite as sad as a bat or a pangolin with polio.
Translation: It’s an election year in the U.S. Just don’t call it “election interference”. Only Repubs can be guilty of that, like only whites can be racist.
Election variant?
So are they competing or partnering with Bill Gates?
I still believe the Chinese are looking for a virus that attacks and kills everyone without Chinese DNA.
would the fbi be forced into admitting anything?...
Imagine a huge Chinese balloon lazily traversing the heartland of the US unmolested spreading pathogens that would kill crops and livestock. Hardly a scifi movie plot.
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