Secret Chinese-linked biotech lab uncovered in California with nearly 1,000 mice, 20 potentially infectious agents, COVID tests, and human blood



Following a months-long investigation, local and federal officials uncovered a secret biotech lab with nearly 1,000 mice and 20 potentially infectious agents, according to authorities.

Fresno County authorities discovered an "unlicensed laboratory" inside a warehouse in Reedley, California. The secret lab was owned by Prestige BioTech – a company registered in Las Vegas, Nevada. Prestige BioTech claimed it moved assets to the warehouse from the now-defunct Universal Meditech Inc.

On March 3, a code enforcement officer reportedly noticed a garden hose attached and coming out of a wall in the back of the warehouse.

Reedley City Manager Nicole Zieba told KSEE, "Frankly, we knew that should not have been there and when she went to investigate, she found that there was activity or operation or something happening within that building."

The Fresno County Public Health Department obtained search warrants and made the shocking discovery on March 16.

"Certain rooms of the warehouse were found to contain several vessels of liquid and various apparatus," court documents stated. "Fresno County Public Health staff also observed blood, tissue and other bodily fluid samples and serums; and thousands of vials of unlabeled fluids and suspected biological material."

According to court documents, “Certain rooms of the warehouse were found to contain several vessels of liquid and various apparatus … Fresno County Public Health staff also observed blood, tissue and other bodily fluid samples and serums; and thousands of vials of unlabeled fluids and suspected biological material.”

Fresno County Public Health Department assistant director Joe Prado said, "So there was over 800 different chemicals on site in different bottles of different acids. Unfortunately, a lot of these are being categorized under unknown chemicals."

Prado added, "There were some laboratory mice on-site at this location. What we heard from the business owner was that they were doing some type of testing with those mice to see whether or not their COVID test kits were actually effective in detecting COVID. So, that was one example of what they shared with the purpose of the laboratory mice were being on-site."

According to KFSN-TV, "Through the process, health officials say they found the company, Prestige Biotech and Universal Meditech, had refrigerators filled with chemicals, human blood, illegal COVID and pregnancy tests, and just under 1,000 mice."

Zieba said, "There was a special room that was built housing about 1,000 white lab mice."

Court documents state that hundreds of mice at the warehouse were kept in inhumane conditions, and more than 175 were found already dead. In April, the city euthanized 773 of the mice.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention conducted tests and discovered that the laboratory contained at least 20 potentially infectious agents, including coronavirus, HIV, hepatitis, and herpes, according to a Health and Human Services letter dated June 6.

Citing court documents, KTLA reported that there were "20 potentially infectious viral, bacterial, and parasitic agents were present including E. Coli, malaria, and even COVID."

Officials say that all hazardous materials were removed from the warehouse by July 7.

Zieba said of the current lab, "There are no more biologicals. There are no more mice, but they still will see us abating, 30 freezers and fridges, medical equipment, and all sorts of furniture in there. They’ll still see some activity, nothing hazardous at this point."

Prado explained, "I've never seen this in my 26-year career with the County of Fresno."

City officials contacted Xiuquin Yao – the president of Prestige Biotech.

NBC News reported, "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 reportedly could not find any California-based address for Prestige BioTech or Universal Meditech.

"The other addresses provided for identified authorized agents were either empty offices or addresses in China that could not be verified," court documents declared, acording to NBC News.

Prestige BioTech is reportedly not registered with the Fresno County Public Health Department as a medical waste generator.

Prestige BioTech is accused of not providing a plan for biological abatement and disposal of the materials.

The Epoch Times reported, "Court documents say both companies failed to provide any licensing that allows laboratory activity, nor did they provide the necessary permits for storing and importing chemical reagents from outside the United States."

A criminal investigation by federal agents is ongoing.

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Republican senators probing USDA's links to blacklisted Chinese biotech firm and its 'massive effort to sequence all of life'



Republican lawmakers are probing links between the U.S. Department of Agriculture and a blacklisted genomics company that is under the de facto control of the communist Chinese regime.

Sens. Roger Marshall (R-Kan.), Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.), Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), and Susan Collins (R-Maine) expressed concerns this week that ongoing American collaborations with BGI Genomics could jeopardize U.S. security as well as the nation's competitive edge.

The senators sent a letter to USDA Secretary Thomas Vilsack Tuesday, pressing him for answers concerning the department's relationship with BGI and stressing the importance of vigilance in "safeguarding U.S.-funded research that has potential to be weaponized against the U.S.."

Background on BGI

BGI Genomics, formerly the Beijing Genomics Institute, runs a gargantuan gene databank and has secured DNA-sequencing contracts the world over, including for its COVID-19 and prenatal screening tests.

Axios noted in 2020 that BGI had agreed to build a gene bank and a "judicial collaboration" center in Xinjiang, where Chinese authorities reportedly erected Uyghur concentration camps, and sought to "build up genetics-based surveillance capabilities targeting ethnic minorities."

Reuters conducted a review of scientific papers and company statements in 2021, revealing that BGI sold prenatal tests globally that it had developed in collaboration with the Chinese military and was "using them to collect genetic data from millions of women for sweeping research on the traits of populations."

The review referenced March 2021 warnings from U.S military advisers that the vast bank of genomic data BGI was amassing could provide the communist Chinese regime with a means to a significant economic and military advantage.

This advantage could potentially take the form of a competitive edge in the development of pharmaceuticals, "genetically enhanced soldiers, or engineered pathogens to target the U.S. population or food supply."

While the company denied that it had ever been asked to provide data from its genetic tests "to Chinese authorities for national security or national defense purposes," Reuters pointed out that Beijing stipulated in a 2019 regulation that genetic data could be a national security matter — meaning the regime could ultimately access the data whenever it pleased.

The U.S. Defense Department added BGI and other Chinese companies to a blacklist last October.

The U.S. Department of Commerce indicated in a March 6 statement that BGI poses a "significant risk of being or becoming involved in activities contrary to the national security or foreign policy interests of the United States."

The department further stated, "The addition of these entities is based upon information that indicates their collection and analysis of genetic data poses a significant risk of contributing to monitoring and surveillance by the government of China, which has been utilized in the repression of ethnic minorities in China."

In light of these concerns, the department added BGI to its Bureau of Industry and Security's Entity List for trade restrictions.

The Chinese threat

Even if presently benign, BGI's regulatory compromise by communist authorities means it could be quickly co-opted and used for nefarious purposes. Beijing's aspirations are, after all, antipodean to America's.

According to the Pentagon's 2022 "Report on Military and Security Developments Involving the People's Republic of China," China "presents the most consequential and systematic challenge to U.S. national security and the free and open international system."

TheBlaze previously detailed how Michael Pillsbury, director of the Center on Chinese Strategy at the Hudson Institute, indicated in the book "The Hundred-Year Marathon" that the CCP's aim is "a world without American global supremacy."

Per the 2022 Pentagon report, China's "strategy entails deliberate and determined efforts to amass, improve, and harness the internal and external elements of national power that will place the PRC in a 'leading position' in an enduring competition between systems."

The report also referenced China's engagement in "biological activities with dual-use applications," which could be brought to bear against the U.S. in a potential conflict.

The four Republican senators seized upon this worry in their July 25 letter, writing that China "has been weaponizing biotech in preparation for strategic advantage in a new domain of biological warfare."

American decoupling

The Republican senators' letter indicated that USDA's Agriculture Research Service previously awarded $1 million to BGI and has collaborated with it on the Earth BioGenome Project since 2018 — an initiative to sequence the genomes of over 1.5 million species over a 10-year period.

"We are gravely concerned that the USDA is participating in this massive effort to sequence all of life with BGI's participation as an active research collaborator," wrote the senators.

The letter highlighted the Chinese regime's obstructionism during the pandemic and subsequent efforts to hamstring investigations into COVID-19's origins as evidence of China's unwillingness to shoot straight and play fair "despite data-sharing agreements and multiple-year collaborations between the PRC and U.S. public health agencies and universities."

"Even if USDA stopped paying BGI directly, through partnering with BGI and sharing U.S. intellectual property, the collaboration could endanger our security by giving China a strategic competitive edge to hold and store data that U.S. scientists have worked hard to develop," they wrote.

Sen. Marshall told the Epoch Times, "Our government must take extreme caution to prevent sponsoring research that gives any sensitive materials and intellectual property to the Chinese Communist Party."

"The CCP views biology as a domain of warfare which includes the study of all plant and animal living organisms," continued Marshall. "The USDA and all government agencies involved in cutting edge biological research must have better oversight when corresponding with CCP-sponsored organizations that are not immediately obvious."

The senators have prompted USDA Secretary Vilsack to answer to the USDA's involvement with the Earth BioGenome Project, its potential funding of research involving dangerous pathogens in "countries of concern," and whether the department has "planned for contingencies if access to data collected by BGI or any other China-based organization is suddenly terminated.

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Bioscience company claims to have technology capable of resurrecting the woolly mammoth  – Jurassic Park is HERE



Are there any limits to what technology can do? Every day it seems limitations dissolve and boundaries are deemed obsolete.

That is certainly the case for a new tech company that just emerged in 2021. It’s called Colossal Biosciences, and it claims to have technology capable of achieving something that has never been done before: resurrecting extinct species.

Yes, you heard that right — Colossal Biosciences is the real-world version of the InGen Corporation from the "Jurassic Park" film franchise.

Founders Ben Lamm and Dr. George Church intend to reawaken the ancient woolly mammoth from its 4,000-year-old grave. They also have their sights set on other species, including the Tasmanian tiger and the dodo bird.

Glenn Beck, who’s equally fascinated and concerned, invites Ben Lamm on the show to discuss the company and its intentions.

Beck begins by reading Colossal Bioscience’s mission statement:

Through technological and engineering breakthroughs in biosciences and genetics, Colossal is accepting humanity’s duty to restore Earth to a healthier state, while also solving for future economies and biological necessities of the human condition. Colossal will revolutionize history and will be the first company to use CRISPR technology successfully in the de-extinction of previously lost species. On the journey, we will build radically new software tools and technologies to advance the science of genomics overall. We are leading the new charge of bioscience. We accept the responsibility. We see the light at the end of it all.

Lamm says that “these genetic rescue technologies not only can help bring these incredible animals back and help restore those ecosystems ... but can actually develop technology that we can use to advance conservation,” which he claims is crucial considering “we could lose up to 50% of all biodiversity between now and 2050.”

Colossal’s technological innovations can also “be applied to human health care and help with everything from cancer research to genetic engineering and getting rid of certain types of disease states in humans,” Lamm says.

Balanced ecosystem, conservation, improved health care — what could go wrong?

“Have you ever seen 'Jurassic Park'?” Beck asks Lamm, who laughs and claims he’s a big sci-fi fan.

Beck then asks the question we’re all thinking: “Is there anything you won’t bring back?”

Lamm’s response is interesting to say the least. Watch the full video here.


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Norwegian medical experts warn COVID-19 vaccine side effects could be devastating for patients over 80 and the terminally ill



Norwegian health officials say that the COVID-19 vaccine may be "too risky" for coronavirus patients over 80 and the terminally ill, according to a Friday Bloomberg report.

What are the details?

According to the report, at least 23 people have died across the country a short time after receiving just the first dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, prompting experts to wonder if the shot is safe for the elderly and the terminally ill.

Citing the country's medicines agency, Bloomberg reported, "Of those deaths, 13 so far [have] been autopsied, with the results suggesting that common side effects may have contributed to severe reactions in frail, elderly people."

In a statement, the Norwegian Institute of Public Health explained, "For those with the most severe frailty, even relatively mild vaccine side effects can have serious consequences. For those who have a very short remaining life span anyway, the benefit of the vaccine may be marginal or irrelevant."

At the time of this reporting, the outlet estimated that Norway has administered at least one dose to approximately 33,000 people.

'We are not alarmed by this'

The Washington Post reported that the government, despite the deaths, is not worried.

Steinar Madsen, medical director for the Norwegian Medicines Agency, told Norwegian broadcaster NRK that the country's experts are "not alarmed by this."

"It is quite clear that these vaccines have very little risk, with a small exception for the frailest patients," Madsen added. "Doctors must now carefully consider who should be vaccinated. Those who are very frail and at the very end of life can be vaccinated after an individual assessment."

Representatives for Pfizer and BioNTech have yet to issue public remarks on the news at the time of this reporting.

'Developed in haste'

Following the news, the Global Times reported that Chinese health experts are calling on Norway to suspend the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine for the elderly.

The outlet reported that the mRNA vaccine was "developed in haste and had never been used on a large scale for the prevention of infectious disease." As such, the Times notes, "its safety had not been confirmed for large-scale use in humans."

The vaccine has received only temporary approval in the EU.

Yang Zhanqiu, a virologist from Wuhan University, told the outlet on Friday that the deaths, if caused by the vaccines, show that the effects of the vaccines are not as good as expected.

"A Beijing-based immunologist, who requested anonymity, told the Global Times on Friday that the world should suspend the use of the mRNA COVID-19 vaccine represented by Pfizer, as this new technology has not proven safety in large-scale use or in preventing any infectious diseases," the outlet reported. "Older people, especially those over 80, should not be recommended to receive any COVID-19 vaccine, he said."