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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: null and void

Nah I saw an article the had British scientists predicting that.

But if they don’t know more than we know, it could be worse.


61 posted on 01/25/2020 11:38:14 AM 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: Zhang Fei

I expect the Chinese diaspora and trade links are thin on the ground in those countries.

Likely those countries will not let anyone in who has been to China. I read that North Korea will not allow them and that Mexico will not allow its citizens who have been to Wuhan to return to Mexico. They were told to shelter in place.


62 posted on 01/25/2020 11:39:19 AM PST by angry elephant (My MAGA cap is from a rally in Washingon state in May 2016)
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To: null and void

Come on. I trust info from China as much as I trusted my ex not to take money out of my wallet.


63 posted on 01/25/2020 11:39:23 AM 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

I was sure hoping you did!


64 posted on 01/25/2020 11:41:03 AM PST by null and void (The government wants to disarm us after 243 yrs 'cuz they plan to do things we would shoot them for!)
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To: PittsburghAfterDark

And they eat snakes too. :(

I have no particular concern what a country’s people find tasty, even if it’s quite odd to me.

But it seems rats and bats and snakes are transmitters of some pretty devastating viruses.

And I think HIV came from a monkey..though how it got to humans..i don’t want to know


65 posted on 01/25/2020 11:41:17 AM 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: redcatcherb412
Interesting that the virus is not being reported at all in places like North Korea, Russia, Syria, Iran and Eastern bloc countries.

It might be identifying the corona virus is only possible in advanced labs, like our CDC, and in regular hospitals it is considered just the flu. - Tom

66 posted on 01/25/2020 11:41:43 AM PST by Capt. Tom
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To: null and void

I trust our CDC and government in general only half the time.

I trust Trump to tell us the truth almost all the time (sometimes a lie may have a valid reason) and maybe a few senators and house members.

But that’s about it.


67 posted on 01/25/2020 11:42:50 AM 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: COUNTrecount

That (Wuhan has TWO bio-warfare labs) is not surprising.

Link of Chinese researcher(s) banned from top bio-safety lab, I believe, level-4, in Canada (July 2019 news), (surprise, coronavirus), is also not surprising.

What the Chinese did (ahem)research(ahem) since then and the current coronavirus outbreak only leads to much speculation.

Xi’s position would be precarious, if it happens that ChiComm actively suppress the severity of the accidental leak of the virus to the public, thinking their totalitarian gubmint can contain the outbreak.

With crisis/crises at home and abroard (not just in Hong Kong), it shapes out to be a perfect storm for Xi and ChiComm. We will see brutal suppression is in the near future.


68 posted on 01/25/2020 11:44:42 AM PST by Sir Napsalot (Pravda + Useful Idiots = USSR; Journ0List + Useful Idiots = DopeyChangey)
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To: null and void

I think it is 4% mortality rate as reported by WHO, but still relying on Chinese figures. However, I don’t think it is the mortality rate that is so scary as the fact that 25% of cases needed hospital care, sometimes intensive care. (Again relying on Chinese figures.) That is enough to cause a major disruption of health care in any developed country.


69 posted on 01/25/2020 11:48:43 AM PST by ScaniaBoy (Part of the Right Wing Research & Attack Machine)
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To: COUNTrecount

Here is a thought.

China has been investing heavily in Africa. What are the odds that the Chinese have spread this to Africa and that Africa doesn’t have the resources to even begin to test for it?


70 posted on 01/25/2020 11:49:07 AM PST by DannyTN
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To: grey_whiskers; All

From your first link regarding the expelled Chinese researcher in Canada (Heibei Province is the epicenter for this outbreak.)

“Qiu received her medical degree from Hebei Medical University in 1985 and came to Canada for graduate studies in 1996.

She is still affiliated with the university there and has brought in many students over the years to help with her work.”


71 posted on 01/25/2020 11:51:52 AM PST by Ozymandias Ghost
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To: COUNTrecount
Is it possible it's a virus from the Japanese experiments in China during W.W. II?
72 posted on 01/25/2020 11:54:26 AM PST by Captain Peter Blood (https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/3804407/posts?q=1&;page=61)
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To: glorgau

Has Brad Pitt’s character from Z been brought in to save us yet?


73 posted on 01/25/2020 11:57:48 AM PST by Captain Peter Blood (https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/3804407/posts?q=1&;page=61)
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To: null and void

Lovely, bioweapons labs. Great. Maybe that guy claiming it is a bioweapon is telling the truth. Have you seen that?


74 posted on 01/25/2020 12:01:48 PM PST by little jeremiah (Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.)
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To: DannyTN
What are the odds that the Chinese have spread this to Africa and that Africa doesn’t have the resources to even begin to test for it?

That is a possibility since testing for the virus is not available in most first world labs and certainly not in 3rd world countries. - Tom

from our CDC:
January 17, 2020
At this time, diagnostic testing for 2019-nCoV can be conducted only at CDC. snip...

Testing for other respiratory pathogens by the provider should be done as part of the initial evaluation and should not delay specimen shipping to CDC.

75 posted on 01/25/2020 12:02:49 PM PST by Capt. Tom
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To: PittsburghAfterDark

Chinese pride themselves on eating horrible, nasty creatures.


76 posted on 01/25/2020 12:03:28 PM PST by little jeremiah (Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.)
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To: Capt. Tom

Yeah, the CDC said they have developed tests and will soon start sharing them with major cities and foreign governments.

I hope the tests are easily reproducible.


77 posted on 01/25/2020 12:04:07 PM PST by DannyTN
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To: COUNTrecount; All

This is China’s Chernobyl


78 posted on 01/25/2020 12:04:55 PM PST by tcrlaf (They told me it could never happen in America. And then it did....ew)
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To: grey_whiskers

Looks like Patient 0 had no tie to the animal market.

https://www.scmp.com/news/china/soci...avirus-chinese

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Only China would know this, and I can think of many reasons why they would lie about it, or not even know for sure.


79 posted on 01/25/2020 12:05:02 PM PST by little jeremiah (Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.)
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To: DannyTN
Yeah, the CDC said they have developed tests and will soon start sharing them with major cities and foreign governments.
I hope the tests are easily reproducible.

In this day and age I would hope a hospital lab could take a picture of the isolated virus, or photos of blood work etc. and send it to the CDC immediately electronically to expedite things. -Tom

80 posted on 01/25/2020 12:13:06 PM PST by Capt. Tom
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