Amid elites' talk of 'Disease X,' Chinese lab debuts mutant coronavirus with 100% kill rate in humanized mice



Chinese scientists in Beijing have crafted a coronavirus variant called GX_P2V that kills humanized mice 100% of the time, largely with late-stage brain infections. The scientists indicated their mutant virus "underscores a spillover risk of GX_P2V into humans."

The study, regarded as pointless and dangerous by Western experts, comes amidst chatter by global elites about "Disease X," a hypothetical pestilence more lethal than COVID-19, and just days after a British report revealed lab leaks of deadly pathogens occurred frequently, even in labs with ostensibly better standards than those observed in China.

The preprint of the study, published earlier this month in BioRxiv, details how coronaviruses allegedly derived from the scaly anteaters known as pangolins ahead of the COVID-19 pandemic were grown in a lab in 2017 and 2020, then tested on mice.

The researchers, including a former Chinese military biosecurity expert, cloned a mutant version of the 2017 strain, which was initially able to infect both golden hamsters and mutant mice. The mice had been humanized — altered to express human ACE2, the receptor used by SARS-CoV to gain entry into human cells.

"We found that the GX_P2V(short_3UTR) clone can infect hACE2 mice, with high viral loads detected in both lung and brain tissues," wrote the researchers. "This infection resulted in 100% mortality in the hACE2 mice. We surmise that the cause of death may be linked to the occurrence of late brain infection."

When conducting autopsies on the humanized mice, the researchers detected "significant amounts of viral RNA in the brain, lung, turbinate, eye, and trachea of the GX_P2V C7 infected mice, whereas no or a low amount of viral RNA was detected in other organs such as the heart, liver, spleen, kidneys, tongue, stomach, and intestines."

The researchers also indicated the uncloned version resulted in 100% mortality in the humanized mice.

All mice infected with the live virus died with 7-8 days. Prior to their demise, the rodents began losing weight, reaching a 10% body weight decrease by the sixth day of infection.

By the seventh day, "the mice displayed symptoms such as piloerection, hunched posture, and sluggish movements, and their eyes turned white."

While the study references parallel work executed by Wuhan Institute of Virology scientist Dr. Shi Zhengli, an infamous virologist known as China's "bat woman," the New York Post suggested there appears to be no formal link between this study and the communist-run WIV.

The WIV was the epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic, home to U.S.-funded gain-of-function experiments on coronaviruses, and the workplace of the likely COVID patients zero.

The 2023 Global BioLabs Report out of King's College London gave China an overall biorisk management score of 33 out of 48. The U.S., by way of comparison, scored 42. China's international biorisk management engagement score was 8 out of 14.

Largely through freedom of information requests, the Telegraph recently discovered that the U.K., which tends to rate higher on biosafety and biosecurity than China, saw a 50% increase in lab leaks and accidents since the pandemic.

Dr. Francois Balloux, an expert in infectious disease epidemiology and pathogen genomics at the University College London's Genetics Institute, said on X, "It's a terrible study, scientifically totally pointless. I can see nothing of vague interest that could be learned from force-infecting a weird breed of humanised mice with a random virus."

"Conversely, I could see how such stuff might go wrong," added Balloux.

American molecular biologist Richard H. Ebright of Rutgers University responded to Balloux's assessment, writing, "Concur."

Ebright suggested that contrary to a community note on X, the virus was not an "existing virus" prior to the experiments but rather a "new mutant variant constructed in laboratory by serial passage."

Ebright later noted, "Thank Fauci and Collins for encouraging this type of research."

Guennadi V. Glinskii, a former National Institutes of Health consultant and retired UC San Diego professor who specialized in personalized genomics-guided prevention, stressed, "This madness must be stopped before too late."

In the meantime, international elites appear to be working under the presumption the madness will not come soon enough.

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the head of the World Health Organization, was joined by policymakers, corporate leaders in the pharmaceutical industry, and various technocrats at the World Economic Forum's meeting of the minders Wednesday to discuss preparations for "Disease X."

Ghebreyesus said, "Anything happening is a matter of when, not if."

The WHO director suggested further that COVID-19 could be thought of "the first Disease X," adding "it may happen again."

The WEF previously suggested that "Disease X" could "result in 20 times more fatalities than the coronavirus pandemic," reported Newsweek. The last virus out of China killed over 1.1 million Americans according to the CDC.

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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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US official: 'Growing body of evidence' coronavirus came from Wuhan lab



A top United States official said recently that the "most credible" theory for how the coronavirus pandemic started is that the pathogen escaped from a Chinese laboratory.

What are the details?

U.S. deputy national security adviser Matthew Pottinger told British parliamentarians last week that even Chinese leaders have started to acknowledge that the virus did not originate in the Wuhan wet market as initially reported. Instead, he said, it likely escaped from the Wuhan Institute of Virology located just 11 miles away.

"There is a growing body of evidence that the lab is likely the most credible source of the virus," Pottinger said during a Zoom conference about China, according to the Daily Mail. "Even establishment figures in Beijing have openly dismissed the wet market story."

Whether the virus escaped by "leak or accident," he could not confirm.

The theory has been widely disseminated since earlier this year, when citizen investigators used publicly available information to make the case.

Reporters noticed all-too-coincidental job openings posted by the lab in November and December 2019 — right as mysterious pneumonia-like cases were popping up in Wuhan — which requested scientists to come "research the relationship between the coronavirus and bats" and indicated that help was needed to handle a dangerous leak.

That is not to mention the fact that the lab was the first in all of China to achieve BSL-4 clearance, or the level of bioresearch safety required to study the world's most dangerous pathogens. Though some thought that clearance was granted prematurely.

Shortly after the discovery of the job postings, a pair of leaked State Department cables from 2018 found that U.S. officials visiting the lab were so concerned about its "serious shortage of appropriately trained technicians and investigators" in concert with its study of "SARS-like coronaviruses in bats" that they felt the need to notify the U.S. government.

What else?

According to the Daily Mail, Pottinger's confidence in the theory comes as a result of conversations the U.S. has had with a whistleblower from the Wuhan lab.

"I was told the US have an ex-scientist from the laboratory in America at the moment," said former Tory Party leader Iain Duncan Smith, who attended the meeting. "That was what I heard a few weeks ago."

"I was led to believe this is how they have been able to stiffen up their position on how this outbreak originated," he added.

Pottinger's comments come as a team of experts from the World Health Organization prepare to travel to Wuhan to investigate the pandemic's origins, though some critics fear the investigation won't reveal anything given the organization's coziness with China.