Thread by @BillyBostickson

1. Project 1742 (EcoHealth/DTRA)
Risks of bat-borne zoonotic diseases in Western Asia

Duration: 24/10/2018-23 /10/2019

Funding: $71,500
@dgaytandzhieva
facebook.com/847064690/vide…

2. Bat Virus Database
Access to the database is limited only to those scientists participating in our ‘Bats and Coronaviruses’ project
Our intention is to eventually open up this database to the larger scientific community
wabnet.eha.io/about/?next=/

3. EcoHealth Alliance & DTRA Asking for Trouble
One Health research project focused on characterizing bat diversity, bat coronavirus diversity and the risk of bat-borne zoonotic disease emergence in the region.
researchgate.net/publication/32…

4. Phelps, Olival, Epstein, Karesh - EcoHealth/DTRA

5, Methods and Expected Outcomes
(Unexpected Outcome = New Coronavirus Pandemic)

6. Back after the Outage, wasn't me!
Dr. Kendra Phelps

kendraphelps.wordpress.com/photos/
researchgate.net/profile/Kendra…
depts.ttu.edu/biology/people…
kingstonlab.org/people/past-la…
ecohealthalliance.academia.edu/KendraPhelps/C…
scholar.google.com/citations?user…

7. Even the so-called "professional" bat researchers working for EcoHealth often fail to use proper PPE (masks, suits), despite being well aware of the risks of infection from bats since 2013, Here is Kendra Philips and her local colleagues
kendraphelps.wordpress.com/photos/

8. Some "wows" have animated me to add more tweets ;)
Bat Researchers have known since 2013 about bat to human direct transmission of viruses
Here is the full advice from "SEABCRU" prepared by Kevin Olival in Pnomh Penh 2013, updated 2015
http://128.199.199.236/?page_id=1137

9. The Full guidance for PPE is listed carefully under three sets, A, B and C.

10. Bat Research is a dangerous hobby!

https://twitter.com/BillyBostickson/status/1313065102229209089

11. Dead Bat Researchers

12. Many more similar stories
Infection and Death from European Bat Lissavirus (EBL)
newscientist.com/article/dn3101…
A sad time for bats and bat biologists
socialbat.org/2012/06/05/a-s…

13. On May 23, 2012, Assistant Professor Dr. Björn Martin Siemers died as a result of an infection, within only a few hours, and just two days before his 40th birthday.
frontiersin.org/articles/10.33….

14. More stories
vancouversun.com/news/local-new…
Bats can infect humans with Rabies, Marburg, Nipah and many other viruses, some known others unknown.

15. Talking of Marburg - A Tragic Story
Ebola, Marburg, and a Real Life Cave of Death
realclearscience.com/blog/2014/10/t…

16. General Official Advice:
Has always been "Never handle a bat with bare hands. Use thick gloves or call a bat removal expert to help you remove bats from your house"
dnr.maryland.gov/wildlife/Pages…
But let's look at the so-called experts!
Please observe the hands...

17. The PPE Flow Chart for Bat Researchers
The details for each set (A, B, C) can be found in a previous tweet in this thread or here:
http://128.199.199.236/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/SEABCRU_Disease-guidelines-revised_13Aug2015.pdf

18. Now let's take a look at the Bat Researchers in action
1. Covered Arms - No!
2. Respirator/N95 Mask - No!
3. Gloves - No!
That is Kendra Phelps from EcoHealth showing us how not to follow their own advice, putting our lives at risk with our tax money, thanks to Fauci & Daszak

19. More Bat Research without Gloves

20. And more!

21. Half Way There, Professor!

22. Bare Arms!

23. The Reality of Bat Research in Yunnan

24. The Ecohealth/WIV Photo-shoots for the Media

25. Daszak's Propaganda Show

26. This what we know and what they know

27. What we know they do and how they do it

28. Old Headlines - Were They Right?
From way back in February 2020

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