An Examination of the Potential Threat of a State-Sponsored Biological Attack Against the United States
2019 Master's Thesis
bearworks.missouristate.edu/cgi/viewconten…
This section refers to:
China’s Biological Warfare Programme: An Integrative Study with Special Reference to Biological Weapons Capabilities (2015) by Danny Shoham
idsa.in/jds/9_2_2015_C…
PDF
idsa.in/system/files/j…
The author of the Master's Thesis, Corey Pfluke wrote a summarised version of her section on China in 2020:
Biohazard: A Look at China’s Biological Capabilities and the Recent Coronavirus Outbreak
airuniversity.af.edu/Wild-Blue-Yond…
"Although assessing China’s military capabilities is notoriously difficult due to the secrecy & opacity its institutions maintain, a combination of historical records, assessments, & studies provide a view of China’s BW programme, this view is unsettling"
orfonline.org/expert-speak/a…
An Indian Perspective (Part 1)
AN ASSESSMENT OF CHINA’S BIOLOGICAL WARFARE CAPABILITIES AND NEED FOR GLOBAL APPROACH TO BIO-SECURITY
researchgate.net/publication/34…
An Indian Perspective (Part 2)
AN ASSESSMENT OF CHINA’S BIOLOGICAL WARFARE CAPABILITIES AND NEED FOR GLOBAL APPROACH TO BIO-SECURITY
researchgate.net/publication/34…
My thread on China's BW Program
An important Reference is a paper by Croddy (2002 )
(a little dated but with many useful references to suspected facilities)
including the Wuhan Institute of Biological Products
(WIBP..next door to the WIV BSL4 Complex in Jingxia)
nonproliferation.org/wp-content/upl…
Hence my tweet yesterday
and
"126 tedious WIBP supply documents translated
A minor victory!"
Essential Background Reading on WIBP
Published by DRASTIC a year ago
researchgate.net/publication/35…
Referenced in the Taiwan News by @keverington
taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/4137284
Another article by Dany Shoham focusing on the Canadian-Tianjin Angle:
China's Biological Warfare Programme and the Curious Case of Dr. Xiangguo Qiu (2019)
idsa.in/cbwmagazine/ch…
x.com/BillyBostickso…
The Radosavljevic–Belojevic method for outbreak scoring & differentiation shows that the official assumption of its natural origin is questionable and highlights the probability that the pathogen may have been "accidentally" introduced to humans
researchgate.net/publication/35…
“The genomic origin of the strain that infected patient zero was a Chinese bat virus that underwent extensive pre-adaptation to humans, including continual transmissibility..
“The open question is how, where, and when such exceptional genomic pre-adaptation took place”
One possibility is that a wild-type virus was 1st propagated repeatedly in human tissue cultures & the resulting spontaneously upgraded virus was then used to experimentally infect monkeys or ferrets—one of which then accidentally infected staff in the lab
jns.org/opinion/where-…
An interesting observation
"The WIV has long been routinely supplied with rhesus monkeys from the Macaque Breeding Base in Suizhou City"
Note the references have been deleted:
safeboxasia.com/en/center/inde…
and
safeboxasia.com/en/news/info_9…
and replaced with chinese lottery website!
However, for once, google cache saves the day
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Top Gene Bio's new cleaned website
topgenebio.com
Facebook Page:
facebook.com/topgenebio/
Invite you to search
Snapshots
20,000 Caged rats and mice
800 + Monkeys
1300 Types of genetically engineered mice
300 types of genetically engineered rats
A well known supplier of Monkeys....
"Business Segment"
Taking a break, to be continued.
The "chinese lottery" website can actually be accessed in all its tedious glory by installing a noscript extensión
safeboxasia.com/cn/animal/list…
You may be wondering why this thread has diverged into Chinese monkey breeding minutia...
Reason being that any putative Chinese BW program would require monkeys for experiments, as was the case in USA & UK (Operation Cauldron)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation…
bbc.com/news/uk-englan…
Operation Cauldron Film:
The trials were conducted by scientists from Porton Down in Wiltshire. About 3,500 monkeys and guinea pigs were killed after exposure to "plague bombs"
archive.org/details/Operat…
and
vimeo.com/50042014
Operation Cauldron, The Stuff of Monkey Nightmares
More Chinese Monkey Research and Breeding Programs to come tomorrow
5 species of primates are used in China for biomedical research
2 species, crab-eating macaque & common marmoset are alien
3 species, pigtail, stumptail & rhesus macaques, are indigenous
Those used for biomedical research are crab-eating & rhesus macaques
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK22179…
The following information on monkey breeding centres in China is from 2001.
There have been some changes...
For example, Hubei Topgene Biotechnology, the new supplier to WIV and WIBP was not listed 20 years ago.
Tables in previous tweet are from
Chinese Primate Status and Primate Captive Breeding for Biomedical Research in China
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK22179…
From 2004, another table offers more information
Highlighted is Laboratory Animal Center of Chinese Academy of Military Medical Sciences in Beijing
From:
Notice of State Forestry Administration on Strengthening the Management of Experimental Monkeys
archive.ph/fIzFx
To be continued..Homework
China has become the Mecca for those deluded Chinese & Foreign Researchers keen to abuse monkeys on the altar of Science.
While author Xin Hao gloats over low labor costs
Monkey Research in China
Developing a Natural Resource
cell.com/fulltext/S0092…
Please Note
This thread is an investigation of the breeding centres, laboratory research evidence, logistics and locations of possible Biological Warfare research in China using non human primates.
It may lead nowhere or it might lead somewhere, that remains to be determined.
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