Excerpt from the 2005 AVC report, China Part: "military scientists have published open literature the results of studies of aerosol stability, models of infectious virus aerosols and detection of aerosolized viruses..." 1/n
"Facilities in China that may have legitimate public health and commercial uses could also offer access to additional BW-enabling capabilities."
Takeaway: pathogen aerosolization and exposure tests are key steps in developing bioweapons like SARS-CoV-2.
A deep dive 🪂 2/n
Meet Jin-Song Li (李劲松) from the Academy of Military Medical Sciences(AMMS), Institute of Microbiology & Epidemiology (IME), and its affiliated joint lab State Key Laboratory of Pathogen and Biosecurity (SKLPB or SKLPBS).
Li chairs the Department of Biosafety.
Thread: How PLA prepared the Covid-like bio-attack
Trailblazer of “National Biosafety Strategy Research”: Zheng Tao (郑涛), from Institute of Biotechnology, the Academy of Military Medical Sciences, PLA (Major General Chen Wei is the director)
1. “Computational experiment supported platform for bioterrorism events and research examples”
Quantitative analysis of various bioterrorism events, providing infrastructure datasets, models and algorithm-experiments-scenarios whole process in 3D.
Case study: anthrax aerosol.
2. "Impact of school closures on influenza epidemic and economy" (2013)
"summarized effective measures related to school closures in case of epidemic outbreaks, and attempted to provide reference for decision-making on controlling domestic epidemic"