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Why was there an illegal China-linked bio lab in Fresno, California?
Hotair ^ | 07/29/2023 | David Strom

Posted on 07/29/2023 9:11:38 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

You would think that this would get a bit more attention than it has. It certainly piqued my interest when I saw it.

A China-linked company ran a grossly unsafe bio lab filled with deadly pathogens in a supposedly empty warehouse in Fresno, California. A company without much of a backstory, addresses that don’t exist, and a president who can only be reached by email.

China-linked Bio Lab in Fresno Co, California Had Over 900 Mice “Genetically Engineered to Catch and Carry the Covid-19 Virus” https://t.co/SAvzAx53gU

— The Gateway Pundit (@gatewaypundit) July 29, 2023

No, this is not the plot of a bad movie. A Chinese company that nobody knows much about took over an abandoned building, set up a grotesque unsanitary bio lab complete with genetically engineered mice, stored HIV, Malaria, COVID-19, Hepatitis, and other viruses as well as vats of “biological material” for purposes unknown.

On March 3, an illegal bio lab was discovered in a believed-to-be vacant building in Reedley, California in Fresno County. City code enforcement stumbled upon the building in December 2022 when they discovered a garden hose running up into the building through a hole in the wall. In March, they obtained a warrant to inspect the property, and in April, the Fresno County Department of Public Health ordered an inspection of the facility.


Illegal bio lab, via Google Maps

James Bond apparently was not involved in raiding the lab.

“It was pretty clear right off the bat that something was going on we didn’t have a business license for,” Reedley City Manager Nicole Zieba said. “They didn’t have any city approvals; that building was supposed to be vacant.”

Zieba said the officers left the property because they did not have a warrant. The suspicious garden hose coupled with numerous building code violations led officers to declare the site unsafe. The city posted “Unsafe to Occupy” signs around the property and ordered individuals on site to leave. They then called the Fresno County Department of Public Health (FCDPH).

That phone call launched an investigation that would eventually involve the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the FBI, the State Department of Toxic Substances Control (DTSC), the State Department of Health, the California Department of Public Health (CDPH) and FCDPH, and would lead to the discovery of a lab that had been operating illegally in the city since October 2022. For FCDPH Director David Luchini and FCDPH Assistant Director Joe Prado, the amount of biological materials and chemicals – over 800 – found at the lab was a first.

This all sounds totally innocent. A shady company with very little backstory takes over an abandoned building, and stocks it with all sorts of medical equipment and biological materials, genetically engineered mice, and a bunch of documentation in Chinese. Deadly viruses just happened to be stored in freezers.

And all this was discovered in March, and it was a local newspaper that started reporting on this in… late July when court papers were filed.

NBC News picked up the story, although as of yet nobody in the media has hit the lights and sirens as one might expect. After all, the world has been upended by a pandemic that was likely released from a bio lab in China after gain-of-function research, and now a secret bio lab is found in Fresno, California.

Seems odd enough to garner attention.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention tested the substances and detected at least 20 potentially infectious agents, including coronavirus, HIV, hepatitis and herpes, according to a Health and Human Services letter dated June 6.

An investigation found the tenant was Prestige BioTech, a company registered in Nevada and unlicensed for business in California. City officials spoke with Xiuquin Yao, who was identified as the company president, through emails included in the court documents.

Yao told officials that Prestige BioTech moved assets belonging to a defunct company, Universal Meditech Inc., to the Reedley warehouse from Fresno after UMI went under. Prestige Biotech was a creditor to UMI and identified as its successor, according to court documents.

Officials were unable to get any California-based address for either company except for the previous Fresno location from which UMI had been evicted.

“The other addresses provided for identified authorized agents were either empty offices or addresses in China that could not be verified,” court documents said.

China. China. China.

It always comes back to China.

I anxiously await some CDC and NIAID officials’ explanations about how all this was quite innocent and that the lab actually developed immaculately, with no human involvement. A Pangolin or Raccoon Dog set it up and ran the lab, and the fact that there were shady Chinese connections was a complete coincidence.

Any other speculation is just wild conspiracy-mongering and must be censored immediately. FBI officials are deployed to all social media companies to ensure that all memes and speculation about what was going on be ruthlessly suppressed.

Who wants to bet that this gets memory-holed as quickly as possible?



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To: SeekAndFind

Obama defunded hypervirialization in the US in 2014 as too dangerous. They renamed it gain of function which may be technically different but functionally the same. Trump signed blank checks for big pharma. So this makes sense.


21 posted on 07/30/2023 3:36:25 AM PDT by momincombatboots (BQEphesians 6... who you are really at war with. )
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To: SeekAndFind

Because California not only allowed it, they welcomed it.


22 posted on 07/30/2023 4:03:08 AM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true . . . I have no proof, but they're true.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Bet you anything that they’re all across America. Do you really honestly think that all those illegal Chinese, Muslims, Russians, German, etc., etc. invaders have a good intentions for this nation? Hey, I have a bridge to sell you that connects California to Hawaii. When the truth comes out, we, the American people are going to be horrified. What went on behind our backs, while all the time the DC swamp was making $$$$$$$$$$$ deals with China and all these enemies of America to sell her out chill us to the bone. They’re here for a reason and that is to destroy this nation. After all, words from the middle East ragsheads …they are the great satan that must be destroyed… remember?


23 posted on 07/30/2023 6:47:41 AM PDT by RoseofTexas
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To: SeekAndFind

Anyone still believe that COVID was ‘accidentally leaked’ from Wuhan?

The Chinese are on video claiming that they’re targeting viruses at specific DNA, those of non-Chinese origin. Then we see this? This should be viewed as an act of war.


24 posted on 07/30/2023 7:04:45 AM PDT by fuzzylogic (welfare state = sharing of poor moral choices among everybody)
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To: SeekAndFind

bump!

How many more labs are here without our knowledge?


25 posted on 07/30/2023 7:50:41 AM PDT by EBH (America Blackmailed, The True Story of the World War...Coming Soon (1/21-))
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To: piasa

The United States is a big place...

Gee...all that empty CRE...sitting idle. How many are owned by the Chinese? How many are leased to Chinese companies?

C’mon man...we are perfectly safe here.


26 posted on 07/30/2023 7:53:15 AM PDT by EBH (America Blackmailed, The True Story of the World War...Coming Soon (1/21-))
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To: SeekAndFind

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You would think that this would get a bit more attention than it has.
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Lots of squirrel events to keep this kind of news from getting attention..


27 posted on 07/30/2023 9:06:48 AM PDT by delchiante
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To: SeekAndFind

Hunter told them they wouldn’t need a permit.


28 posted on 07/30/2023 9:40:12 AM PDT by blam
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; BraveMan; cardinal4; ...

29 posted on 07/30/2023 11:36:25 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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What are the odds of two White House dogs who only bit Secret Service Agents, but are safe around children and staff?
30 posted on 07/30/2023 1:58:46 PM PDT by GOPJ (What are the odds two dogs would both only bite Secret Service Agents? Coincidence? Zero.)
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To: GOPJ

Great catch!


31 posted on 07/30/2023 5:15:51 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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To: SeekAndFind

If it was a bioweapons lab it would have a lot more than some refrigerators, freezers and mice. They would need CO2 incubators, ultracentrifuges, large scale bioreactors, PCR machines, and DNA sequencers. This sounds like some half azz biotech company doing scut work for a larger organization.


32 posted on 07/30/2023 7:24:55 PM PDT by Brooklyn Attitude (I went to bed on November 3rd 2020 and woke up in 1984.)
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