Wuhan Lab in Colorado
I don’t know about you, but I saw a lot of problems with government decisions during the COVID dilemma. Grants for bat research were made directly with the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) by EcoHealth Alliance without government or citizen approval. Citizen’s representatives were not given information regarding the NIH work and when questioned about their involvement in “gain of function research”, were obstructed from information, stonewalled or were given lies. Then we had top officials establishing a police state to enforce vax and masks while working with BIG PHARM to rush in creating protection. Little of what they told the public was true and eventually people lost jobs, lost freedom of speech, and developed terrible consequences to the shots while the majority of us were wondering how and why this could happen.
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Now we have a similar scenario taking place in our state. This summer a new construction project will begin at the Colorado State University Foothills Campus. With a $6.7 million grant from the NIH, CSU will build a facility, which will house bat breeding colonies for CSU researchers and researchers around the United States and the world. This facility will allow an expansion of CSU’s current work, including projects focusing on the role that bats play in disease transmission and the development of vaccines and therapeutics.”
This center is an extension of the CSU Center for Vector-Borne Infectious Diseases (CVID), which has been active on campus since the late 1970s under the name of Arthropod-borne and Infectious Disease Laboratory (AIDL). A new biolab at CSU raises questions about safety and security at its existing biolabs. The center rears insect and bat colonies for infectious disease experiments with dangerous pathogens such as Nipah, Hendra, West Nile virus, chikingunya, dengue, malaria, Rift Valley fever, Zika virus, COVID-19, MERS, influenza, hantavirus disease and more. Live-pathogen experiments there are performed in part in facilities, which are meant to be air-tight laboratories with special technologies to prevent researchers from getting infected and spreading infections.
A draft proposal seeks funding from the NIH to replace “aging” infrastructure within CVID. The proposal’s authors are 2 faculty members (Tony Schountz and Greg Ebel) and Jonathan Epstein, a vice president at EcoHealth Alliance) write that, “several of our buildings are well past their useful lives.” They attached pictures of accumulating mold and mildew as proof of “rapidly degrading” facilities that “leak when it rains.” The proposal also explains that the lab’s existing design requires cell samples of infected bats and insects to “be transported to different buildings prior to use.” It states that the existing autoclaves, which sterilize biohazardous materials, “frequently malfunction and there is a legitimate concern they will continue to do so.”
The proposal raises several questions: Are human lives at risk from AIDL’s faulty equipment and infrastructure? Does this deterioration increase the likelihood of an accidental leak of dangerous pathogens? Are there other EcoHealth Alliance-affiliated facilities around the world that are similarly degraded and unsafe? Were the conditions similarly unsafe, for example, the EcoHealth Alliance-funded Wuhan Institute of Virology? That institute has been identified as a possible source of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes Covid-19.
CSU officials want to ensure us that everything will operate correctly and safely. “Personnel who will work in this facility will be highly trained and be required (to) adhere to strict biosafety and biosecurity practices,” said Rebecca Moritz, CSU Biosafety Director. “Students will have the opportunity to learn directly from researchers conducting this research in their classes,” Moritz said. “That is not an opportunity they will get outside of CSU because this will be the only facility like it in the United States.” “CSU researchers have safely studied and worked with bats and other vectors for over 30 years,” she informed us.
However, records of CSU’s institutional biosafety committee (IBC) seem to reinforce concerns about safety. Meeting minutes from May 2020 indicate that a CSU researcher acquired Zika virus infection and symptoms after manipulating experimentally infected mosquitoes. The IBC noted: “Most likely this was a mosquito bite that went undetected during a chaotic time due to COVID-19 shut downs and changes.” Ironically, increased infectious disease research on SARS-CoV-2 may have heightened the risk of biosafety lapses and mishaps at CSU.
CSU officials want to ensure us that everything will operate correctly and safely. “Personnel who will work in this facility will be highly trained and be required (to) adhere to strict biosafety and biosecurity practices,” said Rebecca Moritz, CSU Biosafety Director. “Students will have the opportunity to learn directly from researchers conducting this research in their classes,” Moritz said. “That is not an opportunity they will get outside of CSU because this will be the only facility like it in the United States.” “CSU researchers have safely studied and worked with bats and other vectors for over 30 years,” she informed us.
However, records of CSU’s institutional biosafety committee (IBC) seem to reinforce concerns about safety. Meeting minutes from May 2020 indicate that a CSU researcher acquired Zika virus infection and symptoms after manipulating experimentally infected mosquitoes. The IBC noted: “Most likely this was a mosquito bite that went undetected during a chaotic time due to COVID-19 shut downs and changes.” Ironically, increased infectious disease research on SARS-CoV-2 may have heightened the risk of biosafety lapses and mishaps at CSU.
A concern for me was a public meeting on CSU’s new facility being scheduled during the 2022 holidays with little announcement to citizens. One “nonpartisan grassroots group” heard of the meeting and attended to ask questions about research on bat-transmitted viruses. They called for CSU to perform studies on the research of COVID virus. Although the group spoke at the public meeting, the county unanimously passed the university’s proposal to build the bat vivarium.
Something this big and possibly dangerous should be approved by more than the school and the county where it resides. If there is one mistake, like in Wuhan, many in Colorado will experience the consequences. Although CSU believes in academic integrity and full transparency, many worry about the conspiracy of hidden information. |
It is interesting that the same groups that mismanaged the Wuhan incident are again doing the same thing. The NIH and EcoHealth Alliance is so busy lying, excusing, and blaming each other for the Wuhan mess. Can we be confident that they get it right this time??
While the NIH keep denying it had helped create the virus that sparked the COVID-19 pandemic, they revealed in a letter sent to Republicans in Congress that experiments it funded through EcoHealth Alliance in 2018 and 2019 at the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) in China had the “unexpected result” of creating a coronavirus that was more infectious in mice.
While the NIH keep denying it had helped create the virus that sparked the COVID-19 pandemic, they revealed in a letter sent to Republicans in Congress that experiments it funded through EcoHealth Alliance in 2018 and 2019 at the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) in China had the “unexpected result” of creating a coronavirus that was more infectious in mice.
NIH says the organization holding the parent grant, the EcoHealth Alliance, failed to immediately report this result to the agency, as required. A newly released progress report on that grant also shows that EcoHealth and WIV conducted experiments changing the virus that Icauses Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS), which is raising additional questions.
I can understand why Larimer county went along with CSU plans, it’s all about the money! The question is what can be done now after they pushed through this virology plan. One Facebook group is currently calling on CSU to perform studies on the research of the COVID-19 virus. The Covid Bat Research Moratorium of Colorado wants to know why the NIH is funding facilities to research bat-transmitted viruses and want a moratorium until questions are answered. |
Let people know if you are concerned. Send letters to congressmen/women. Send letters to CSU, county officials and send encouragement to those fighting this tremendous trickery and most of all tell your church and intercessors to PRAY!
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