Posted on 02/08/2021 5:38:34 PM PST by NachOsten
Two Canadian government scientists escorted from the National Microbiology Laboratory amidst an RCMP investigation and internal review have been let go from the Public Health Agency of Canada, CBC News has learned.
"The two scientists are no longer employed by the Public Health Agency of Canada as of Jan. 20, 2021," Eric Morrissette, chief of media relations for Health Canada and PHAC, confirmed in an email late Friday.
"We cannot disclose additional information, nor comment further, for reasons of confidentiality."
Sources say members of the lab's special pathogens unit were called to a meeting on Thursday and told that Dr. Xiangguo Qiu and her husband, Keding Cheng, will not be returning to work. They were not given an explanation.
Cheng, Qiu and her students from China were removed from Canada's only Level 4 lab in July 2019 over what was described as a possible "policy breach" and administrative matter.
Last year, documents obtained by CBC News through an access to information request found that Qiu was responsible for a shipment of Ebola and Henipah viruses to the Wuhan Institute of Virology four months before she and her husband were escorted from the NML.
At the time, PHAC said the shipment and Qiu's eviction from the lab were not connected.
"The administrative investigation is not related to the shipment of virus samples to China," Morrissette wrote in an email last June.
"In response to a request from the Wuhan Institute of Virology for viral samples of Ebola and Henipah viruses, the Public Health Agency of Canada sent samples for the purpose of scientific research in 2019."
No connection to COVID-19
The RCMP and PHAC have consistently denied any connections between the COVID-19 pandemic and the virus shipments. There is no evidence linking the shipment to the spread of the coronavirus. Ebola is a filovirus and Henipah is a paramyxovirus — no coronavirus samples were sent.
Qiu also made at least five trips to China in 2017-18, including one to train scientists and technicians at China's newly certified Level 4 lab, which does research with the most deadly pathogens, according to travel documents obtained by CBC News in October 2019.
Despite RCMP and PHAC denial of connections, there have been conspiracy theories stating otherwise. One medical expert says we need more transparency on the issue.
Ouster of researchers from National Microbiology Lab still a mystery Online claims that Chinese scientists stole coronavirus from Winnipeg lab have 'no factual basis' Canadians have the right to know more, said Amir Attaran, a professor in the faculty of law and School of Epidemiology and Public Health at the University of Ottawa.
"This adds to the appearance that NML staff acted improperly, and perhaps illegally, when they exported Canada's collection of Ebola virus to a lab in Wuhan, China, totally without any scientific justification that NML cares to offer," Attaran said.
Spies. Committing acts of espionage. This aint too hard to figure out.
Even Commie CBC admits that.
Way beyond reparation.
Ping!
Sure not!
Now we are at Covid-21, next year will be at Covid-22, and and and and...
No Connection!!!
UCK, please-—I just ate.
Dr. Xiangguo Qiu accepting a Governor General's Innovation Award at Rideau Hall in 2018. She, her husband, Keding Cheng, and an unknown number of her students from China were removed from Canada's only level-4 lab on July 5 amidst an RCMP investigation into what's being described as a possible 'policy breach.'
Love Thy Neighbor... NOT
at least you got an appetite.
Been puking last 20 years... :-)
In 2019, with the backing of NIAID, the National Institutes of Health committed $3.7 million over six years for research that included some gain-of-function work. The program followed another $3.7 million, 5-year project for collecting and studying bat coronaviruses, which ended in 2019, bringing the total to $7.4 million.
Xiangguo Qiu and Keding Cheng
Eh? Not Bob Smith and Fred Jones???
Lenin apparently said the West will sell us the rope we will use to hang them with.(badly paraphrased.)
Here we have another example: Canada sells the pathogens to the Chinese they can use to kill us with.
Well, that's a relief. For a moment we were talking about dangerous pathogens there... The Nipah virus is 50-75% mortality and Ebola somewhere between 20 and (gulp!) 90%...
When COVID-19 started, Fauci should’ve been arrested instead of elevated. Even Obama told him to stop doing gain of function experiments.
and bloody Pence standing right behind him-not even blink.
When will the folks realize, it is deadly to their children, when?
Work with kids in universities. Cheating online exams. They think it's a joke. This girl, final exam - 97% online.
She admits cheating. Could never get more than 70% if she studied 24/7!
My G, total destruction of society. Cheats, lairs and drug addicts!
Imagine as 12 years old not being able to roam around, play sports, socialize?
IMPOSSIBLE!!!!
Way to go ....
this is off the top of my head and may be a little faulty..but as I recall the person who discovered the Nipah virus is from Australia and has worked with bats..and perhaps Bat lady
i dont recall his name
“Biological samples. The papers are all in order. You see, it doesn’t even have an odor.” -12 Monkeys
Yet, Canadians will just shut up and put up and vote Turd in again in the spring.
Love thy neighbor, or bomb him!
“Man kills 34 while shouting Allahu akhbar. No connection to Islam”
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