- Re: Covid-19 genetically engineered Archived Message
Posted by margo
on May 13, 2020, 5:25 pm, in reply to "Covid-19 genetically engineered "
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Hi Mary, there've been other reports saying it's not been engineered, so who to believe. Noteworthy that while the US is quick to point fingers at China and accuse Chinese scientists of crimes, in fact the USA shamefully had to shut down its leading military science lab [Fort Detrick] last year due to shoddy practice, not long before American soldiers went to Wuhan for 2019 Military Games events: [ quote] excerpt  Previous MessageDeadly Germ Research Is Shut Down at US Army Lab Over Safety Concerns Problems led the government to suspend research at the military’s leading biodefense centre in August 2019 New York Times/ Aug. 5, 2019 -- SAFETY CONCERNS at a prominent military germ lab have led the government to shut down research involving dangerous microbes like the Ebola virus. “Research is currently on hold,” the United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases, in Fort Detrick, said in a statement on Friday. The shutdown is likely to last months, Caree Vander Linden, a spokeswoman, said in an interview. The statement said the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention decided to issue a “cease and desist order” last month to halt the research at Fort Detrick because the center did not have “sufficient systems in place to decontaminate wastewater” from its highest-security labs. After criticizing American officials for politicizing the pandemic, Chinese officials and news outlets have floated unfounded theories that the United States was the source of the virus. Chinese officials says US army maybe brought virus to Wuhan during Military Games of 2019 https://www.businessinsider.fr/us/chinese-official-says-us-army-maybe-brought-coronavirus-to-wuhan-2020-3 The institute is a biodefense center that studies germs and toxins that could be used to threaten the military or public health, and also investigates disease outbreaks. It carries out research projects for government agencies, universities and drug companies, which pay for the work. It has about 900 employees. The shutdown affects a significant portion of the research normally conducted there, Ms. Vander Linden said. The suspended research involves certain toxins, along with germs called select agents, which the government has determined have “the potential to pose a severe threat to public, animal or plant health or to animal or plant products.” There are 67 select agents and toxins; examples include the organisms that cause Ebola, smallpox, anthrax and plague, and the poison ricin..../ continues https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/05/health/germs-fort-detrick-biohazard.html And in other news ... France says virus strain might be local and not have come from China http://www.rfi.fr/en/france/20200429-french-coronavirus-strain-may-be-local-and-may-not-have-come-from-china |