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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Lab leaks and accidents up 50% in UK since pandemic: Report
Elements of the U.S. government remain reluctant to conclude whether the unhygienic Chinese communist-run lab at the center of the pandemic — where patients zero conducted radical experiments on coronaviruses — was indeed the origin of the virus. Time and federal lawsuits may yet reveal whether alleged bribes helped muddy waters stateside.
A fact that does not depend upon the consensus of government agencies possibly affected by Anthony Fauci's apparent cover-up and the communist regime's denial is that lab leaks happen. Not only do they happen, they recur frequently, both in countries like China, where biosafety is notoriously second-rate, as well as in Western nations.
This is especially true in Britain, where the Telegraph recently highlighted a 50% rise in lab leaks and accidents since the emergence of COVID.
This massive increase in leaks is all the more alarming granted freedom of information requests to the British government, to universities in the U.K., and to government research bodies have revealed that lethal viruses and bacteria ranging from anthrax and rabies to Middle East respiratory syndrome are being stored nearby in large populations.
As demonstrated early in the COVID pandemic — where the Chinese regime wittingly permitted hundreds of thousands of possibly infected travelers to travel internationally whilst limits were otherwise placed on domestic travel — a problem abroad can fast become a problem for America.
The Health and Safety Executive, a British government agency responsible for workplace health and safety, reportedly recorded 286 lab incidents or near misses between January 2010 and December 2019. That averages out to roughly 28 a year.
The COVID pandemic evidently did not chasten Britons sporting lab coats. Since January 2020, the HSE has recorded 156 incidents, or 42 lab incidents a year.
The HSE, which divulged this startling number only because it had been threatened with contempt of court by the Information Commissioner's Office, refused to provide full details about some of the incidents because they involved viruses and bacteria listed in the Terrorism Act, reported the Telegraph.
Col. Hamish Stephen de Bretton-Gordon, a chemical weapons expert and former commander of NATO's Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear Defense Forces, said, "The apparent lab leaks in this country alone show we are all sitting on a ticking time bomb."
"It seems highly likely that (Covid-19) was man-made, though also likely an accident at a lab, rather than deliberate," Bretton-Gordon told the Telegraph. "The next pandemic is highly likely to be man-made, given the ease and unregulation of synthetic biology, and could kill millions of people."
Even when regulations are in place, dangerous experiments continue behind closed doors.
While, for instance, the Obama administration announced a pause on the funding of any new studies involving gain-of-function experiments with influenza, SARS, and MERS viruses in 2014, the National Institutes of Health nevertheless approved continued GOF research on coronaviruses with funding from Peter Daszak's scandal-plagued EcoHealth Alliance, which was in turn partly funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development.
The Telegraph noted that among the lab accidents revealed by freedom of information requests were:
- a bird flu leak from a cracked test tube at a Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency lab in Hertfordshire, England;
- an accident involving Neisseria meningitidis, a bacteria linked to life-threatening sepsis, which prompted an evacuation at the Manchester Royal Infirmary;
- COVID breaches at an uncommissioned lab at the University of Liverpool;
- the escape of a mutant mouse; and
- an accidental injection of a lab worker with a modified form of Trypanosoma cruzi, the parasite that causes Chagas disease.
WHO sounds the alarm after Sudanese militants seize biolab containing deadly viruses
The World Health Organization is sounding the alarm over a "high risk of biological hazard" after one of two warring factions in Sudan captured a laboratory containing deadly viruses.
WHO spokesman Nima Saeed Abid told reporters in Geneva Tuesday that technicians were unable to access the lab in Khartoum and properly secure the pathogens, reported Reuters.
The lab is reportedly located near the center of the city, close to Khartoum's primary airport.
Among the various hazardous materials stored on-site are the pathogens the cause measles, polio, and cholera.
"This is the main concern: no accessibility to the lab technicians to go to the lab and safely contain the biological material and substances available," said Abid.
It is presently unclear which faction captured the laboratory.
In August 2019, the authoritarian President Omar al-Bashir was overthrown and arrested after lording over the nation for roughly 30 years. Afterward, the military and civilians shared power in an uneasy alliance.
However, in October 2021, Sudan's military and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) dissolved the power-sharing government.
CNN reported that Sudan’s top general, Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, was behind the military takeover.
There were plans for both the army and the RSF to cede power, but this was evidently not to be.
On April 15, fighting broke out, with both sides seeking to exploit the power vacuum in Khartoum.
Opposite al-Burhan is RSF leader General Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, commonly known as Hemedti.
Whereas the army boasts superior resources and air power, the RSF has marshaled roughly 100,000 fighters across the country, reported Reuters.
According to the WHO, the violence between the two forces has already left 459 dead and 4,072 injured.
Although it is presently unclear whether either force will reign victorious over the country of 46 million souls, whoever comes out on top may have to contend with homegrown biological warfare.
WHO spokesman Nima Saeed Abid said that Sudanese fighters "kicked out all the technicians from the lab … which is completely under the control of one of the fighting parties as a military base."
The result, according to Abid, is an "extremely, extremely dangerous" situation.
Politico indicated that that the lab takeover took place one day before the 72-hour ceasefire between the army and the RSF, announced by U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, went into effect.
National security adviser Jake Sullivan indicated in a Monday White House press briefing that the U.S. was "actively facilitating the departure of American citizens who want to leave Sudan" and had "deployed U.S. intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance assets to support land evacuation routes, which Americans are using."
The Associated Press reported that there are roughly 16,000 private U.S. citizens registered with the embassy as being in Sudan.
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Those people who got a flu shot ahead of the 2019-20 flu season were reportedly less likely to suffer from severe COVID-19 requiring emergency room services, according to ABC News, citing a new report from medical journal Plos One.
What are the details?
New research states that people who got a flu shot may be "less likely to suffer a severe COVID-19 infection down the road."
Plos One's research, which was published Wednesday, took into consideration medical records of more than 74,700 COVID-positive people across the United States, United Kingdom, Italy, German, Israel, and Singapore.
Researchers determined that those people who had previously received the influenza vaccine during the previous six months were "less likely to have had health complications related to their COVID-19 infection."
Findings noted that those people who did not receive flu shots were up to 20% more likely to be admitted to the ICU, up to 58% more likely to visit the emergency room, up to 45% more likely to develop sepsis, up to 58% more likely to have a stroke, and 40% more likely to develop deep vein thrombosis when compared to those who had received an influenza vaccine.
The research, according to the outlet, corroborated the findings of several previous studies that found links between "better COVID-19 outcomes and flu shots."
"That prior research similarly didn't find the flu vaccine offered any protection against COVID-19 death," the outlet added. "Importantly, the flu shot's link to better COVID-19 outcomes doesn't necessarily mean it's protective against the novel coronavirus. While it's possible that the flu shot boosts immunity, it's also possible that people who opt to get the flu shot tend to be healthier overall than people who skip it, meaning they're already at lower risk for COVID-19 complications."
It remains unknown whether the flu shot — which changes annually — will have the same effect for the upcoming flu season.
In the research, study authors concluded, "Even patients who have already received SARS-CoV-2 vaccination may stand to benefit given that the SARS-CoV-2 vaccine does not convey complete immunity."
China reports what could be the first human case of H10N3 bird flu
Chinese officials say that a man in the eastern part of the country has contracted what could be the world's very first human case of H10N3 bird flu.
The risk of large-scale spread is low, according to a Tuesday report from the Associated Press.
What are the details?
The patient, a 41-year-old man from Jiangsu province, was hospitalized with the virus on April 28. He is in stable condition, according to the the country's National Health Commission, and according to NBC News is ready to be discharged.
A statement from the commission stated, "This infection is an accidental cross-species transmission. The risk of large-scale transmission is low."
A Tuesday Reuters report noted that Chinese officials did not state how the man became infected with the avian influenza virus.
"H10N3 is a low pathogenic, or relatively less severe, strain of the virus in poultry and the risk of it spreading on a large scale was very low, the NHC added," according to the report, which also pointed out that just 160 isolates of the virus were reported in the 40 years leading up to 2018.
"No other cases of human infection with H10N3 have previously been reported globally," Reuters reported.
According to the Hindustan Times, "The Chinese Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) conducted a genome sequence on a blood sample from the patient last week and confirmed that it was the H10N3 strain."
"Local authorities have traced the patient's contacts and have kept them under medical observation," the report added.
Experts warn people to avoid contact with "sick or dead poultry," and avoid "direct contact with live birds."
People should also pay attention to "food hygiene, wear masks, improve self-protection awareness, and check for fever and respiratory symptoms."
The NHC noted that no other cases of human infection with H10N3 have been reported elsewhere across the globe.
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