[ April 19, 2024 ]
Last week, GR reported China has had COVID-19 (Coronavirus) in its Wuhan lab for SEVEN YEARS.
Cao Bin, a doctor at the Wuhan Jinyintan Hospital, highlighted research showing that 13 of the first 41 patients diagnosed with the infection had not had any contact with the market. ‘It seems clear that the seafood market is not the only origin of the virus,’ he said.
Wuhan lab was performing coronavirus experiments on bats from the caves where the disease is believed to have originated – with a £3m grant from the US
- Wuhan Institute of Virology undertook coronavirus experiments on bats
- They were captured more than 1,000 miles away in Yunnan
- Sequencing of the Covid-19 genome has traced it to bats from Yunnan’s caves
- Accident at the laboratory in the Chinese city was ‘no longer being discounted’
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Story continues below advertisementBy Glen Owen Political Editor For The Mail, 11 April 2020
The laboratory at the centre of scrutiny over the pandemic has been carrying out research on bats from the cave which scientists believe is the original source of the devastating outbreak.
Documents obtained by The Mail on Sunday show the Wuhan Institute of Virology undertook coronavirus experiments on mammals captured more than 1,000 miles away in Yunnan – funded by a $3.7 million grant from the US government.
Sequencing of the Covid-19 genome has traced it to bats found in Yunnan’s caves.
The laboratory at the centre of scrutiny over the coronavirus pandemic has been carrying out research on bats from the cave which scientists believe is the original source of the devastating outbreak
It comes after this newspaper revealed last week that Ministers here now fear that the pandemic could have been caused by a virus leaking from the institute.
Senior Government sources said that while ‘the balance of scientific advice’ was still that the deadly virus was first transmitted to humans from a live animal market in Wuhan, an accident at the laboratory in the Chinese city was ‘no longer being discounted’.
According to one unverified claim, scientists at the institute could have become infected after being sprayed with blood containing the virus, and then passed it on to the local community.
Bats have been linked with seven major epidemics over the past three decades
Now The Mail on Sunday has learned that scientists there experimented on bats as part of a project funded by the US National Institutes of Health, which continues to licence the Wuhan laboratory to receive American money for experiments.
Results of the research were published in November 2017 under the heading: ‘Discovery of a rich gene pool of bat SARS-related coronaviruses provides new insights into the origin of SARS coronavirus.’
The exercise was summarised as: ‘Bats in a cave in Yunnan, China were captured and sampled for coronaviruses used for lab experiments.
‘All sampling procedures were performed by veterinarians with approval from the Animal Ethics Committee of the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
‘Bat samplings were conducted ten times from April 2011 to October 2015 at different seasons in their natural habitat at a single location (cave) in Kunming, Yunnan Province, China. Bats were trapped and faecal swab samples were collected.’
Another study, published in April 2018, was titled ‘fatal swine acute diarrhoea syndrome caused by an HKU2-related coronavirus of bat origin’ and described the research as such: ‘Following a 2016 bat-related coronavirus outbreak on Chinese pig farms, bats were captured in a cave and samples were taken.
Experimenters grew the virus in a lab and injected it into three-day-old piglets. Intestinal samples from sick piglets were ground up and fed to other piglets as well.’
Senior Ministers say that while the latest intelligence does not dispute the virus was ‘zoonotic’ – originating in animals – it no longer rules out that the virus first spread to humans after leaking from a Wuhan laboratory.
Last week, further doubt was cast on the animal market theory after Cao Bin, a doctor at the Wuhan Jinyintan Hospital, highlighted research showing that 13 of the first 41 patients diagnosed with the infection had not had any contact with the market. ‘It seems clear that the seafood market is not the only origin of the virus,’ he said.
The £30 million Wuhan Institute of Virology, the most advanced laboratory of its type on the Chinese mainland, is based ten miles from the now infamous wildlife market.
Last night, Anthony Bellotti, president of the US pressure group White Coat Waste, condemned his government for spending tax dollars in China, adding: ‘Animals infected with viruses or otherwise sickened and abused in Chinese labs reportedly may be sold to wet markets for consumption once experiments are done.’
US Congressman Matt Gaetz said: ‘I’m disgusted to learn that for years the US government has been funding dangerous and cruel animal experiments at the Wuhan Institute, which may have contributed to the global spread of coronavirus, and research at other labs in China that have virtually no oversight from US authorities.’
A letter from the Chinese Embassy, responding to our report last week about the possible leak from the Wuhan Institute, is published in today’s edition.
It says: ‘Hasty and reckless allegations, such as naming China as the origin in an attempt to shift the blame before any scientific conclusion, is irresponsible and will definitely do harm to international co-operation at this critical time.
‘China and the UK exchanged views seriously on the origin of the virus and reached consensus.
‘In his telephone conversation with Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab, State Councillor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi pointed out that ‘alarmingly, some people are attempting to politicise the epidemic, label the virus and stigmatise China…’
‘Raab expressed the UK’s firm opposition to politicising the Covid-19 outbreak and fully agrees with China that the source of the virus is a scientific issue that requires professional and science-based assessment.’
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11 Comments
4 years ago
Not hard to work out seeing as the wet market was easy walking distance from the laboratory and CV being so contagious was an ideal bioweapon vehicle..
4 years ago
Wonder why no source I”ve seen state when the US 3.7 million was committed and given to this lab…
4 years ago
“The Mail on Sunday has learned that scientists there experimented on
bats as part of a project funded by the US National Institutes of
Health, which continues to licence the Wuhan laboratory to receive
American money for experiments.”
Yeah – the damned Yanks gave £3M to this lab.deliberately in a secret deal with China to avoid Americans finding out and exposig the truth. Then the bl**dy Chinese lab. workers sold the infected animals to the local wet market. That action has caused millions of deaths around the world. You don’t need Trump to screw the world – you need the Yanks’ Military morons. Same with Lyme disese when in 1939 biological warfare was being researched in Conn. Ticks were infected by the ‘Lyme’ bacteria, and were released in Connecticut forests, which then spread throughout the world.
4 years ago
Reply to
BrexitForever
Apparenty the experiments consisted of gene splicing human DNA with that of the coro-virus which is why the virus is so damned difficult to control or develop a vaccine for.
4 years ago
U.S. Paid Wuhan Lab. £3.7 mill. ($4 mill.) For Coronovirus Research
$3.7million grant to Wuhan lab at center of coronavirus leak scrutiny that was performing experiments on bats from the caves where the disease is believed to have originated
* The US National Institutes of Health, a government agency, awarded a $3.7million research grant to the Wuhan Institute of Virology
* The lab is the center of several conspiracy theories that suggest it is the original source of the coronavirus outbreak
* The institute experimented on bats from the source of the coronavirus
* They were captured more than 1,000 miles away in Yunnan
* Sequencing of the Covid-19 genome has traced it to bats to Yunnan’s caves
* The U.S. government funded research on coronavirus transmission in the lab over the past decade
4 years ago
China is stealing from us. poisoning the world with Chinese viruses. they should be punished for their wealth. we made them rich now bitch is stealing from us baby formula (for my son and out of mouths of other babes) and masks to name a few.
communist society extending her crepes hands to the west with poison.
4 years ago
Reply to
Mary cathleen
Bia-Doon, the Feinsteins and Pelosis probably forget what Lenin said, “The capitalists will sell us the rope we hang them with.” Feinsteins chauffeur was not spy, he was an intermediary.
4 years ago
You can talk until your jaw cramps and never convince me that the coronavirus we are experiencing is not a failed biological weapons experiment that got out of control.
To hell with the “wet market” theory. The chinks have had those for centuries, and all of a sudden this?
Their weapons laboratory is in Wuhan province, right up the road from where this all supposedly originated.
4 years ago
Postscript to Sun Tzu’s The Art of War:
1) Infect the enemy with a pandemic virus
2) Sell defective personal protective equipment to the enemy at exorbitant price
3) Wait for civil war in enemy country, so military forces are activated.
4) Conduct EMP strike to paralyze enemy’s electronics
5) Invade and conquer weakened enemy nation
Those nice folks who invented gunpowder and built the Great Wall are about to kick our arses while Democrats and wimpy RINOs kowtow to them!
4 years ago
Reply to
durabo
Consider Sun Tsu’s Art of War, but fast forward to Unrestricted Warfare. Colonels Qiao Liang and Wang Xiangsui
4 years ago
Why are we funding virology experiments in China with no oversight? Kind of like the Iran nuclear deal with no oversight. Stupid, stupid, stupid!
