Thread by @NrIsodera

@infinity10 MUST WATCH:-
#TheComingContagion @CNN
10.30 MYT/SGT
#AllHailTheLockdown @AJEnglish 11.30 MYT/SGT
#TheListeningPost @AJEnglish
12.30 MYT/SGT

MUST WATCH!! 🤜🤛👊

#TheComingContagion (#CNNSPECIAL), EXPLAINS VIRAL #ZOONOSES like #EBOLA (which emerged from the #RainForest) & the #COVID19Pandemic (the emergence of which is, possibly from #fruitbats, is currently still being analyzed for confirmation).

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Interview with African Professor who discovered #Ebola in (DRC) in 1976:- thesun.co.uk/news/13555504/…

The African Professor who discovered #EbolaVirus (but, of course, the Western Scientists who flew into Africa to take advantage of the golden opportunity to study and discover a new virus and a #Zoonosis, at that, took the credit for it)! Biasalah!! 🙈

Exactly why #ProfessorLamSaiKit (University of Malaya Medical Microbiologist) was initially reluctant to share the new Malaysian zoonotic virus with (guess who?! 🤔) lest they take credit for its discovery?! #NipahVirus

Unfortunately, he had no choice because Malaysia didn't have a Biological Safety Levels P4 facility then. UPM Veterinary Medicine Faculty did have a separate negative pressure laboratory, to study veterinary viruses, but its EM didn't provide the necessary information.

Forcing #ProfessorLamSaiKit to send his blue-eyed boy to (you know where?! 🧐 because he thought he was dealing with a flavivirus) with a sample of what he thought was #JapaneseEncephalitisVirus (which Prof Jane Cardosa had told @ProMED_mail doesn't kill pigs or pig farmers)!!

And, so was told to #STFU by the guy from #MOH because only he could talk about this virus which was killing pigs 🐷🐖 and pig farmers!! 🧍🧍🧍🧍

.. which JE doesn't, according to #ProfJaneCardosa!!

The Flavivirus Centre (#ProfLamSaiKit's "blue-eyed boy was sent to) told him: It wasn't a Flavivirus!! And sent him forward to (guess where?!) which sent its Epidemiological Intelligence Service to Malaysia, with a portable P3 Biological Safety Cabinet, to study the new virus!

And the rest, like they say, is history!! Fortunately, by fluke, there's a Malaysian scientist based at the laboratory where the sample taken to the first location was forwarded to the second location, to at least ensure co-authorship of any resulting scientific papers!! 🤜🤛

*BSL4 (Biological Safety Level 4)

*Btw #UPM was the only Malaysian Institution at the time which had an Electron Microscope (EM) for virus visualisation! Through the initiative of its then Dean of Veterinary Sciences #Professor Latiff Ibrahim.

*whose chosen research area was #JE Virus because she had been cautioned by the so-called "Malaysia's Virologist" that only his lab could study #DengueVirus!! So, being the Malaysian Virologist expert on #JEVirus, she knew #JEVirus doesn't kill 🐷🐖 or Pig Farmers!! 🧍🧍🧍🧍🧍

LMAO!! 😅🤣
ROFL!! 🤣😂
Sorry but this is TOO FUNNY!!

So, how do I know all these?!
Because I was the Virologist at the Microbiology Division at the Faculty of Science, who was in touch with the other two Malaysian Virologists: both at UNIMAS and the second US Centre (whom I met while on sabbatical there in 1995)!! Tuhan Maha Kaya!

Like we say in #MY: "GOD IS GREAT"! 🙏