Posted on 02/10/2022 10:51:18 AM PST by Red Badger
The Wuhan Institute of Virology, which manipulated bat coronaviruses resembling COVID-19 to become deadlier to humans, appears to have carried out similar research on influenza, The National Pulse can reveal.
An article posted to the Chinese-language website of the military-linked lab, which many public health and intelligence officials believed to be the source of COVID-19, details how researchers sought various avian influenza viruses (AIV) that had “zoonotic potential with human infections.”
The post, titled “Scientist in WIV achieves a progress in study on reassortment of influenza viruses,” details how Wuhan Institute of Virology researchers hunted these viruses in the wild.
“In this study, by collaboration with Prof. Qiyun Zhu in Lanzhou Veterinary Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences and Prof. Hualan Chen in Harbin Veterinary Research Institute, the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Prof. Jie Cui in WIV, carried out surveillance of AIVs in ducks, geese and the environment of a community in Hunan province, China, from 2014–2015,” explains the summary.
Using these samples, collected in a similar method to the lab’s bat coronavirus studies, Wuhan Institute of Virology researchers also “isolated multiple co-circulated AIVs including H3N2, H3N8, and H5N6, and, most importantly, a novel reassortant: H3N6.”
“Phylogenetic analyses suggest that H3N6 is highly likely derived from H5N6, which has recently been shown to have zoonotic potential with human infections. Studies with mammalian cell lines and a mouse model indicate that four selected AIVs of duck or goose origin can infect MDCK and A549 cells but have low pathogenicity in mice,” adds the lab.
“They propose that a potential co-circulation of multiple subtypes including H5N6 in local area may result in the production of novel subtypes such as H3N6 by gene reassortment.”
The Wuhan Institute of Virology’s unearthed influenza research follows the lab manipulating “killer” bat coronaviruses as part of the Chinese Communist Party’s lab’s efforts to find strains capable of “direct human infection.”
These studies, which have seen most of their findings hidden by the Chinese Communist Party, were funded by taxpayer dollars directed to the lab by National Institutes of Health agency leader Anthony Fauci.
The Chinese were buying up samples of every single disease they could find or get their hands on. They were in Sierra Leone in 2017 offering the government cash for Ebola samples they were storing for research.
I do not think they got any, but I would not swear to that.
Needs to be nuked from orbit.
I was wondering what they were going to send home with all the athletes.
One of the things that kept the US and USSR from annihilating each other during the Cold War was the Americans and the Russians aren’t suicidal.
The Chinese have no such deterrent.
With a population of 1.5 BILLION people and conceivably could field an army of 250 million OR MORE, THEY FIGURE THEY COULD WITHSTAND ANYTHING THE WEST COULD THROW at them.
By developing a fatal disease and a inoculation vaccine for their elites simultaneously, they could unleash it upon the world and be literally the Last Man Standing....................
I’m gonna party like it’s 1918!
We now know what the next WW will include, Chinese viruses unleashed that will be far more deadly than the Wuhan Flu strain. I’d say stock up now on known treatments and ways to protect yourself. You know the socialists here will shut down the economy so I can see mass shortages of necessary goods.
Captain Trips
It’s amazing that this lab hasn’t been replaced by a large nuclear bomb crater.
And sad. One could say without fear of exaggeration that this institute is one of the greatest threats to humanity that ever existed. It’s an ongoing threat to our survival and needs to be eliminated posthaste.
Was Dr Fubar funding that too? 🤪
I’m still wondering. I would expect something worse than the flu, even if it is weaponized.
similar research on influenza
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Yup, including going to Alaska to dig up the 1918 Spanish flu out of the permafrost in , iirc, 2014.
I remember reading about it and thinking
Why !?
To use for a bioweapon I bet.
Super Spreader wave #2.
Yes, this fits with what I know from all the Infectious Diseases meetings that I’ve attended.
80% of pandemic preparedness sessions from 1995-2019 have been about influenza. They were digging up corpses from the high Arctic to recover 1918 Influenza viruses to work on. The flu work was actually more controversial than the coronavirus work in terms of biosafety.
And whatever the Chinese interest in this may or may not have been, the main drivers of pandemic virus research have historically been in the West, and especially in Bethesda (civilian) and Frederick (military).
These labs should be located in North Dakota, not a major metropolitan area....................
A small nuke in the middle of Wuhan would take care of any future viruses from them.
They probably have more than one....................
Annnd..........crickets.
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