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Virus-hit Wuhan has two laboratories linked to Chinese bio-warfare program
Washington Times ^ | January 24, 2020 | Bill Gertz

Posted on 01/25/2020 9:57:32 AM PST by COUNTrecount

The deadly animal virus epidemic spreading globally may have originated in a Wuhan laboratory linked to China’s covert biological weapons program, according to an Israeli biological warfare expert.

Radio Free Asia this week rebroadcast a local Wuhan television report from 2015 showing China’s most advanced virus research laboratory known the Wuhan Institute of Virology, Radio Free Asia reported.

The laboratory is the only declared site in China capable of working with deadly viruses.

Dany Shoham, a former Israeli military intelligence officer who has studied Chinese bio warfare, said the institute is linked to Beijing’s covert biological weapons program.

“Certain laboratories in the institute have probably been engaged, in terms of research and development, in Chinese [biological weapons], at least collaterally, yet not as a principal facility of the Chinese BW alignment,” Mr. Shoham told The Washington Times.

Work on biological weapons is conducted as part of a dual civilian-military research and is “definitely covert,” he said in an email.

Mr. Shoham holds a doctorate in medical microbiology. From 1970 to 1991 he was a senior analyst with Israeli military intelligence for biological and chemical warfare in the Middle East and worldwide, holding the rank of lieutenant colonel.

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TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: biolabs; china; chinesevirus; coronavirus; disease; kag; maga; trump; wuhan
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To: COUNTrecount

bttt


101 posted on 01/25/2020 2:10:46 PM PST by Pajamajan ( Pray for our nation. Thank the Lord for everything you have. Don't wait do it today.)
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To: COUNTrecount

Wondering if lab workers were selling infected animals out the back door to the live animal market identified as the source.


102 posted on 01/25/2020 2:20:12 PM PST by 5by5 (ad)
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To: COUNTrecount

Done on purpose...no doubt...Clinton/Soros/CIA/China...


103 posted on 01/25/2020 2:25:45 PM PST by CincyRichieRich (Vote for President Trump in 2020 or end up equally miserable, no rights, and eating zoo animals)
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To: dp0622

“You’d think they’d shoot for something better than a 2 percent death rate of infected in developed countries. The people there eat bats and rats. That’s likely where it came from.”

Yep. You nailed it.


104 posted on 01/25/2020 2:36:47 PM PST by plain talk
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To: dp0622

A virus with a high sickness rate but a low mortality rate would be a good precursor to war; sicken the soldiers before your fight them.


105 posted on 01/25/2020 3:10:52 PM PST by rottweiller_inc (inter canem et lupum)
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To: dp0622

They know this from the genomes. You are correct.


106 posted on 01/25/2020 3:42:01 PM PST by MarMema (Proud co-pilot for John James)
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

I hope China is wiped out. Just sharing...


107 posted on 01/25/2020 3:43:12 PM PST by MarMema (Proud co-pilot for John James)
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To: PittsburghAfterDark

Not snakes. Bats. The genome is published. Most likely course was bat to civet to human.


108 posted on 01/25/2020 3:44:31 PM PST by MarMema (Proud co-pilot for John James)
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To: grey_whiskers

Of the first group back in December, most had been there.


109 posted on 01/25/2020 3:46:11 PM PST by MarMema (Proud co-pilot for John James)
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To: frank ballenger

The genome is published. Hello.


110 posted on 01/25/2020 3:47:05 PM PST by MarMema (Proud co-pilot for John James)
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To: redcatcherb412

Russia has had a few.


111 posted on 01/25/2020 3:47:50 PM PST by MarMema (Proud co-pilot for John James)
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To: MarMema

To fellow Michigan FReeper:
(On genome of current virus being published by China)

Michigan person quoted in The Scientist Jan23,2019 “In the next couple of weeks or so, we’re going to see more and more cases. We’re going to start to see how serious it really is,” says Peter Gulick, an infectious disease specialist at Michigan State University. “Right now, we’re just hearing numbers here, numbers there . . . numbers that may not have substance, but just may make you worry.”


112 posted on 01/25/2020 4:00:13 PM PST by frank ballenger (End vote harvesting,non-citizen voting & leftist media news censorship or we are finished.)
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To: MarMema

From studying the genes of certain animals they can tell which are likely to have or get these viruses?

Thanks ahead of time :)


113 posted on 01/25/2020 4:23:08 PM PST by dp0622 (Radicals, racists Don't point fingers at me I'm a small town white boy Just tryin' to make ends meet)
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To: dp0622

Let me find my collection of links and post them to you. There are maybe 5.

The story is well known and accepted. It’s quite fun to read.
In short the genome is 96% identical to a common bat coronavirus. They know an intermediate was involved and are guessing civet cats. Of the original infected group, 2/3 had been to the market and were mostly healthy middle aged men.

Deaths are at 13% and infection from 37-63% I think it was. They did downgrade the Ro to 2.8. That’s the ability to infect others, so kinda every infected person infects about 2.8 others.

Quarantine is not going to help except to maybe slow it down.

Are you on twitter?


114 posted on 01/25/2020 4:39:27 PM PST by MarMema (Proud co-pilot for John James)
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To: frank ballenger

See my post above at 114.


115 posted on 01/25/2020 4:40:55 PM PST by MarMema (Proud co-pilot for John James)
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To: MarMema

We depend knowledgeable people like you to inform us.

Thanks.

Feed us the facts the news media lack or suppress.

But please remember most of us (me!) are not trained in technical language and need your guidance. Two or three acronyms and I’m lost.


116 posted on 01/25/2020 4:45:59 PM PST by frank ballenger (End vote harvesting,non-citizen voting & leftist media news censorship or we are finished.)
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To: frank ballenger; dp0622

Start with this.

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2020-01-clinical-wuhan-virus-resembles-sars.html


117 posted on 01/25/2020 5:26:59 PM PST by MarMema (Proud co-pilot for John James)
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To: MarMema

thank you


118 posted on 01/25/2020 6:09:49 PM PST by dp0622 (Radicals, racists Don't point fingers at me I'm a small town white boy Just tryin' to make ends meet)
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To: MarMema

Thank you for the link.

I thought last lines were telling:
“Learning the lessons from SARS, which started as animal-to-human transmission, all game meat trading should be better regulated to terminate this potential transmission route,” Poon said. “Further investigations are needed to clarify the potential threat posed by this emerging virus and asymptomatic cases.”
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So all this time later they still have those horrible animal and seafood places where diseases can jump to new hosts and mutate. With all China’s strict government overseeing of personal activities they just let that food market filth go on and start another disease? Dumb.


119 posted on 01/25/2020 7:13:26 PM PST by frank ballenger (End vote harvesting,non-citizen voting & leftist media news censorship or we are finished.)
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To: null and void

Two? Are both within 10 miles of the Wet Seafood etc. Market?


120 posted on 01/25/2020 9:13:43 PM PST by GOPJ (Will MSNBC bimbos go moist talking to Lev Parnas like they did talking to Michael Avenatti?)
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