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Renowned European scientist: COVID-19 was engineered in China lab, effective vaccine ‘unlikely’
LifeSite News ^ | August 10, 2020 | Steve Mosher

Posted on 08/10/2020 5:58:05 PM PDT by ebb tide

Renowned European scientist: COVID-19 was engineered in China lab, effective vaccine ‘unlikely’

Professor Giuseppe Tritto, an internationally known expert in biotechnology and nanotechnology, says that the China Virus definitely wasn’t a freak of nature that happened to cross the species barrier from bat to man.

August 10, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) – It will not be possible for the Dr. Fauci’s of the world to dismiss Professor Giuseppe Tritto as a crank.  Not only is he an internationally known expert in biotechnology and nanotechnology who has had a stellar academic career, but he is also the president of the World Academy of Biomedical Sciences and Technologies (WABT), an institution founded under the aegis of UNESCO in 1997. 

In other words, he is a man of considerable stature in the global scientific community.  Equally important, one of the goals of WABT is to analyze the effect of biotechnologies—like genetic engineering—on humanity.  

In his new book, this world-class scientist does exactly that.  And what he says is that the China Virus definitely wasn’t a freak of nature that happened to cross the species barrier from bat to man.  It was genetically engineered in the Wuhan Institute of Virology’s P4 (high-containment) lab in a program supervised by the Chinese military.

Prof. Tritto’s book, which at present is available only in Italian, is called Cina COVID 19: La Chimera che ha cambiato il Mondo (China COVID 19: The chimera that changed the world).  It was published on August 4 by a major Italian press, Edizioni Cantagalli, which coincidently also published the Italian edition of one of my books, Population Control (Controllo Demografico in Italian) several years ago. 

What sets Prof. Tritto’s book apart is the fact that it demonstrates—conclusively, in my view—the pathway by which a PLA-owned coronavirus was genetically modified to become the China Virus now ravaging the world.  His account leaves no doubt that it is a “chimera”, an organism created in a lab.  

He also connects the dots linking the Wuhan lab to France and the United States, showing how both countries provided financial and scientific help to the Chinese as they began to conduct ever more dangerous bioengineering experiments.  Although neither American nor French virologists are responsible for the end result—a highly infectious coronavirus and a global pandemic—their early involvement may explain why so many insist that the “chimera” must have come from nature.  The last thing they want to admit is that they might have had a hand in it.

Those of us who, early on, argued for a laboratory origin were dismissed as conspiracy theorists. Our articles were censored as “fake news,” often by American virologists who knew perfectly well what the truth was, but preferred to protect China, and themselves, from scrutiny lest they themselves be implicated. 

Dr. Tritto’s 272 pages of names, dates, places, and facts leaves such apologists with no place to hide.  The story begins following the SARS epidemic of 2003, as the Chinese attempt to develop vaccines to combat the deadly disease.  Dr. Shi Zhengli, about whom I have previously written, was in charge of the program at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.

In vaccine development, reverse genetics is used to create viral strains that have reduced pathogenicity but to which the immune system responds by creating antibodies against the virus. But reverse genetics can also be used to create viral strains that have increased pathogenicity.  That is what Dr. Shi, encouraged by PLA bioweapons experts, began increasingly to focus her research on, according to Prof. Tritto.

Dr. Shi first solicited help from the French government, which built the P4 lab, and from the country’s Pasteur institute, which showed her how to manipulate HIV genomes. The gene insertion method used is called “reverse genetics system 2.”  Using this method, she inserted an HIV segment into a coronavirus discovered in horseshoe bats to make it more infectious and lethal.  

The U.S. was involved as well, particularly Prof Ralph S. Baric, of the University of North Carolina, who was on the receiving end of major grants from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease.  This is, of course, Dr. Anthony Fauci’s shop.  Fauci was a big proponent of “gain of function” research, and when this was prohibited at Baric’s lab because it was considered to be too dangerous, the research was shifted to China.

Prof. Tritto believes that, while Dr. Shi’s research began as an effort to develop a vaccine against SARS, it gradually morphed into an effort to use “reverse genetics” to build lethal biological weapons.  This was the reason that the Wuhan lab became China’s leading center for virology research in recent years, attracting major funding and support from the central government.

I would add that the rule in Communist-controlled China is “let the civilian support the military,” which means that as soon as Dr. Shi’s research showed any potential military uses the PLA would have begun exercising control of the research.  This came out in the open with the outbreak, when China’s leading expert on bioweapons, People’s Liberation Army Major General Chen Wei, was immediately placed in charge of the Wuhan Institute of Virology. As for Dr. Shi Zheng-Li, she seems to have disappeared.

As Dr. Tritto explained in an interview with Italian media:

In 2005, after the SARS epidemic, the Wuhan Institute of Virology was born, headed by Dr. Shi Zheng-Li, who collects coronaviruses from certain bat species and recombines them with other viral components in order to create vaccines. In 2010 she came into contact with American researchers led by Prof. Ralph Baric, who in turn works on recombinant viruses based on coronaviruses. Thanks to the matrix viruses provided by Shi, Baric created in 2015 a mouse Sars-virus chimera, which has a pathogenic effect on human cells analyzed in vitro. 

At that point, the China-US collaboration becomes competition. Shi wants to work on a more powerful virus to make a more powerful vaccine: it combines a bat virus with a pangolin virus in vitro and in 2017 publishes the results of this research in some scientific articles. 

Her research attracts the interest of the Chinese military and medical-biological sector which deals with biological weapons used as a deterrent for defensive and offensive purposes. Thus Shi is joined by doctors and biologists who belong to the political-military sphere, such as Guo Deyin, a scholar of anti-AIDS and anti-viral hepatitis vaccines and expert in genetic recombination techniques. The introduction of the new engineered inserts into the virus genome is the result of the collaboration between the Shi team and that of Guo Deyin. The realization of this new chimera, from a scientific point of view, is a success. So much so that, once the epidemic has broken out, the two researchers ask WHO to register it as a new virus, H-nCoV-19 (Human new Covid 19), and not as another virus derived from SARS. It is reasonable to think that Shi acted only from the point of view of scientific prestige, without however taking into account the risks in terms of security and the political-military interests that her research would have aroused.

When asked why China has refused to provide the complete genome of the China Virus to the WHO or to other countries, Dr. Tritto explained that “providing the matrix [source] virus would have meant admitting that SARS-CoV-2 [China Virus] was created in the laboratory. In fact, the incomplete genome made available by China lacks some inserts of AIDS amino acids, which itself is a smoking gun.” 

The key question, for those of us who are living through the pandemic, concerns the development of a vaccine.  On this score, Prof. Tritto is not optimistic:

Given the many mutations of SARS-CoV-2, it is extremely unlikely that a single vaccine that blocks the virus will be found. At the moment 11 different strains have been identified: the A2a genetic line which developed in Europe and the B1 genetic line which took root in North America are more contagious than the 0 strain originating in Wuhan. I therefore believe that, at the most, a multivalent vaccine can be found effective on 4-5 strains and thus able to cover 70-75% of the world’s population.

In other words, by withholding from the world the original genetic code of the China Virus that it created, the Chinese Communist Party is ensuring that no completely effective vaccine will ever be developed by the West.

In other words, China continues to lie, and people continue to die. 


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: biowarfare; bioweapon; chicoms; chicomvirus; chimera; chimericvirus; coronavirus; covid19; geneticengineering; kungflu; liars; militarylab; p4lab; shizhengli; wuhanflu
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To: 2aProtectsTheRest
FRiend. Approved by the FDA last December. What else ya got?

Well first of all, your beloved FDA approved RU 486 in 2000; so I don't put much stock in that godless organization.

Secondly. From your link:

The approval was granted to Merck & Co., Inc.

More on Merck:

B) Other vaccines, also prepared using human cell lines from aborted foetuses:


81 posted on 08/10/2020 10:46:13 PM PDT by ebb tide (We have a rogue curia in Rome.)
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To: ebb tide

l8r


82 posted on 08/10/2020 11:58:05 PM PDT by preacher ( Journalism no longer reports news, they use news to shape our society.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Not sure, Vietnam had completely under control, until two weeks ago, when all heck broke loose.

Not sure how that happened.

But they’re now really working on getting this under control again.

Masks again, everywhere.


83 posted on 08/11/2020 12:28:18 AM PDT by cba123 ( Toi la nguoi My. Toi bay gio o Viet Nam.)
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To: ebb tide

Question: With returning students, will any outbreak on these campuses turn into Covid “cruise ships.”?


84 posted on 08/11/2020 12:29:08 AM PDT by Varsity Flight (QE 2020. All Quiet on the Western Front)
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To: ebb tide

RE: “... why do they need aborted babies to do so?”

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I like to learn something for the time I spend here, so I found an interesting article from 2017.

“The three most reliable sources to date of abundant fetal stem cells are the placenta, amniotic fluid, and umbilical cord blood.

“Samples from amniotic fluid and the placenta are retrieved using the common prenatal diagnostic procedures of amniocentesis...”

“Umbilical cord blood is easily obtained at the time of birth and can be easily preserved in cord blood banks.”

https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/medicine-and-dentistry/fetal-stem-cell


85 posted on 08/11/2020 1:19:18 AM PDT by deks
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To: jonrick46

Good point. In fact, the statement from the story you highlighted kind of blows the credibility of this story out of the water.


86 posted on 08/11/2020 1:26:27 AM PDT by poconopundit (Iron fist in an Irish velvet glove: Kayleigh the Shillelagh we salute your work!)
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To: Pikachu_Dad

So no effective vaccine is no problem.


87 posted on 08/11/2020 3:46:28 AM PDT by Kozak (DIVERSITY+PROXIMITY=CONFLICT)
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To: Pikachu_Dad

LOL. 160,000 dead with another thousand every day.
Thats some cold bro.


88 posted on 08/11/2020 3:47:13 AM PDT by Kozak (DIVERSITY+PROXIMITY=CONFLICT)
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To: ladyjane

So does Bill Gates.

In fact, he’s looking forward to it.


89 posted on 08/11/2020 4:18:36 AM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: ebb tide

Frankly, I’m surprised the USA and elsewhere hasn’t been ‘nuked’ by more bio-warfare cr@p than this Wuhan Flu!

Maybe we/they have and, ‘our betters’ are not admitting it?

And if it’s the beginning, is it the beginning of the end?

We’ve certainly proven to be a bunch of SHEEP. Grrr!


90 posted on 08/11/2020 5:56:48 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'hobbies.' I'm developing a robust post-Apocalyptic skill set.)
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To: 3D-JOY; abner; Abundy; AGreatPer; Albion Wilde; AliVeritas; alisasny; ALlRightAllTheTime; ...

Just as I guessed: a Chinese Frankenvirus.

Combined General and Coronavirus PING!


91 posted on 08/11/2020 6:18:53 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (The Constitution guarantees the States protection against insurrection. Act now, Mr. President!)
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To: jcon40; ebb tide; dp0622
Ha Ha, prepare to be slashed Professor Giuseppe.

How do you say "Cancel Cult" in Italian?

92 posted on 08/11/2020 6:19:58 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (The Constitution guarantees the States protection against insurrection. Act now, Mr. President!)
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To: plain talk

I figured the virus was an work in progress when some idiot turned it loose.


93 posted on 08/11/2020 6:20:43 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (The Constitution guarantees the States protection against insurrection. Act now, Mr. President!)
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To: jonrick46

With at least 11 different mutations, I’m not sure that the original Wuhan code would be enough for a universal vaccine now.


94 posted on 08/11/2020 6:22:01 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (The Constitution guarantees the States protection against insurrection. Act now, Mr. President!)
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To: headstamp 2

25% tariff on all Chinese stuff now.


95 posted on 08/11/2020 6:22:44 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (The Constitution guarantees the States protection against insurrection. Act now, Mr. President!)
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To: 2aProtectsTheRest; servantboy777

It’s an incomplete product. Somebody let it loose early.

If it were a finished product, people round the world would be dropping like flies.


96 posted on 08/11/2020 6:24:16 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (The Constitution guarantees the States protection against insurrection. Act now, Mr. President!)
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To: ebb tide

I figured that out simply by the way China responded to the release in February.

Level 4 biosuits, sanitizing cash, spraying streets with disinfectant, sealing people in apartment buildings to die... these are not the actions of a people worried about the flu.


97 posted on 08/11/2020 7:20:37 AM PDT by Lazamataz ("Black Lives Matter" becomes "Terse TV Blackmail"..... #AnagramsNeverLie)
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To: ebb tide

Yes, many terms have been added to the medical vocabulary in the past 60 years. It doesn’t make them any less medically accurate terminology. Medical science - like all science - progresses over time. That’s how it works. As it progresses, so does the terminology it uses.

You’re bringing up a bunch of irrelevant information here. Whatever the American Medical Association says about a particular topic that you or I agree or disagree with has nothing to do with what is medically accurate terminology.

What you’re trying to do is discredit the entire medical community because you don’t want to admit I was correct about the terminology in use. That’s an awful lot of work for very little benefit.


98 posted on 08/11/2020 7:24:48 AM PDT by 2aProtectsTheRest
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To: ebb tide
Just ask a veterinary virologist and researcher in Coronavirus pathogens how successful they have been in formulating a vaccine against Canine, Feline, and Porcine coronaviruses. The success rate is dismal due to the slippery nature of the virus and its propensity to mutate rapidly. No one has made the comparison with all of the talking heads and so called “experts”. Just where in the hell did the Wuhan Coronavirus originate and from what? An animal. I am amazed at all of the medical physicians pontificating about the virus with little to no experience with this group of pathogens.
99 posted on 08/11/2020 7:24:58 AM PDT by vetvetdoug
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To: ebb tide

Not especially, and I wouldn’t have bothered to point it out except that literally every single thing in your post was factually inaccurate.

And I’ll let you know just as soon as my Bill Gates check arrives in the mail.


100 posted on 08/11/2020 7:26:49 AM PDT by 2aProtectsTheRest
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