Bio-warfare experts question why Canada was sending lethal viruses to China

beta.canada.com ^ | 8/8/19 | Tom Blackwell

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In a table-top pandemicexerciseat Johns Hopkins University last year, a pathogen based on the emerging Nipah virus was released by fictional extremists, killing 150 million people.A less apocalyptic scenario mapped out by a blue-ribbonU.S. panelenvisioned Nipah being dispersed by terrorists and claiming over 6,000 American lives. Scientists from Canada’s National Microbiology Laboratory (NML) have also said the highly lethal bug is a potential bio-weapon.

But this March that same lab shipped samples of the henipavirus family and of Ebola to China, which has long beensuspected of running a secretive biological warfare(BW) program. China strongly denies it makes germ weapons, and Canadian officials say the shipment was part of its efforts to support public-health research worldwide. Sharing of such samples internationally is relatively standard practice.

But some experts are raising questions about the March transfer, which appears to be at the centre of a shadowy RCMP investigation and dismissal of a top scientist at the Winnipeg-based NML.

“I would say this Canadian ‘contribution’ might likely be counterproductive,” said Dany Shoham, a biological and chemical warfare expert at Israel’s Bar-Ilan University. “I think the Chinese activities … are highly suspicious, in terms of exploring (at least) those viruses as BW agents. “

James Giordano, a neurology professor at Georgetown University and senior fellow in biowarfare at the U.S. Special Operations Command, said it’s worrisome on a few fronts. China’s growing investment in bio-science, looser ethics around gene-editing and other cutting-edge technology and integration between government and academia raise the spectre of such pathogens being weaponized, he said.

That could mean an offensive agent, or a modified germ let loose by proxies, for which only China has the treatment or vaccine, said Giordano, co-head of Georgetown’s Brain Science and Global Law and Policy Program.

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[rfp1234]

Answer: because they're furking idiots. If they want brilliant Chinese scientists to help with research, invite them in.

Better yet, make sure they're defectors from the Communist regime who won't go back.

[Black Agnes]

Ping.

[Jonty30]

I dont trust my government

[blueunicorn6]

The Chinese military......

“We will defeat the Americans with two attacks:
1. Biological weapons.
2. Paying their Democrat Party to screw up their own military.”

[grey_whiskers]

I once wrote an article on FR, in which I linked to a position paper from a high-ranking Chinese Official (my memory is hazy but he was a Colonel or above I think) proposing the use of biological weapons against the US, to preserve our infrastructure for their use.

Alas, the link to the Chinese paper is outmoded.

Thanks, Goolag, you treasonous vermin.

[blueunicorn6]

Once someone lets the biological warfare genie out of the bottle, you never know what might happen.

I think the Chinese like all the money and high-end products they’ve been getting the last couple of decades.

Their communists aren’t real communists.

They like their stuff too much.

Real communists sleep on the ground and pull turnips with their comrades at Turnip Commune #345.

These guys are just dictators.

Damn shame if those Chinese Generals lost their mistresses and mansions.

[bitt]

p

[nickcarraway]

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