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Richard H. Ebright Profile picture
@R_H_Ebright
Sep 21, 2021 • 7 tweets • 1 min read • Read on X
"Wuhan scientists were planning to release enhanced airborne coronaviruses into Chinese bat populations to inoculate them against diseases that could jump to humans, leaked grant proposals dating from 2018 show."

telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/09/2…
"They also planned to create chimeric viruses, genetically enhanced to infect humans more easily, and requested $14million from the [US] Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (Darpa) to fund the work."
"The bid was submitted by British zoologist Peter Daszak of EcoHealth Alliance, the US-based organisation, which has worked closely with the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) researching bat coronaviruses. Team members included..Shi Zhengli, the WIV researcher dubbed 'bat woman'"
"Darpa refused to fund the work, saying: 'It is clear that the proposed project led by Peter Daszak could have put local communities at risk', and warned..the team had not properly considered..dangers of enhancing..virus (gain of function research) or releasing a vaccine by air."
"Viscount Ridley..called for..investigation..in..House of Lords..'For more than a year I tried..to ask questions of..Daszak with no response. Now it turns out he..authored this vital piece of information about..work in Wuhan but refused to share it with the world. I am furious.'"
"So should the world be."
* The proposal calls for aerosol delivery of recombinant SARSr CoV spike proteins in nanoparticles or in orthopoxviral vectors. Not aerosol delivery of SARSr CoVs.

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Dec 14
"The construction of the chimera may violate the
Biological Weapons Convention, as a protective purpose is elusive."

[There was no valid protective purpose.] Image
"[T]he creation of the HKUJ4r-HZAU-2020-MERS(S) chimera may violate Article I of the Biological Weapons
Convention. This is because it is hard to see protective or peaceful purposes arising from its development, a stipulate of Article I."
"NIAID grant R01AI110964, awarded to Dr Peter Daszak of EcoHealth Alliance, funded the creation of pBAC-CMV and, with USAID PREDICT, sampling of isolate 152762 and generation of its RdRp sequence, thereby contributing directly to dangerous Gain of Function work."
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Dec 13
"The handling of highly dangerous viruses is once again at the forefront of the biosecurity debate. In Spain, an investigation is currently underway to determine whether the outbreak of African swine fever could have originated in a laboratory. Separately, researchers in China recently reported the reappearance of a bird virus long thought to be extinct – a finding that is sparking discussion among virologists."

berliner-zeitung.de/politik-gesell…
"Last week, the Spanish Ministry of Agriculture...launched an investigation to determine whether the virus might have escaped from a laboratory. The CReSA laboratory is a particular focus of the investigation. Genetic analyses...show that the virus does not resemble the variants currently circulating in other European countries, but rather a strain discovered in Georgia in 2007 and used in laboratories"
"Virologist Simon Wain-Hobson...points out that just a few weeks before the incident in November, nine scientists from the nearby IRTA-CReSA facility had published an experiment in which 20 pigs were inoculated with high doses of the very Georgia 2007 virus that is genetically similar to the pathogen found in wild boar."
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Dec 11
"The laboratory suspected of being the source of the African swine fever outbreak was under construction."

"Construction work can facilitate escapes, as happened with the foot-and-mouth disease virus in the UK"

elpais.com/ciencia/2025-1…
"CReSA...has a 4,500-square-meter biocontainment unit with 6 laboratories at biosafety level 3...The CReSA expansion project, awarded to the construction company Rogasa, involves adding 3,000 square meters to the high-security laboratory area."
"Virologist Xavier Abad [head of the biocontainment unit at CReSA] issued a warning on social media on November 14: 'Accidents in laboratories that handle pathogens do happen'."
Read 7 tweets
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Dec 10
Virologist Simone Wain-Hobson:

"Yan and colleagues...report the reemergence of historically extinct virulent genotype IV Newcastle disease virus."

"The most parsimonious hypothesis is a lab leak."

biosafetynow.substack.com/p/a-viral-reaw…Image
"In the case of viruses that have become extinct, it is far better to let sleeping viruses lie"

"Don’t resurrect them, don't play with them. Destroy any remaining stocks of virus or infected tissues in the freezer"
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Nov 14
Another lab leak in China:

"Here, we report…emergence of…genotype IV NDV isolates…across…China between 2021 and 2023...These isolates exhibit remarkably high genetic similarity to ancestral strains, showing minimal divergence despite…50–90 years"

journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/jv…
"Class II genotype IV Newcastle disease virus (NDV), a historically virulent strain responsible for the first Newcastle disease (ND) panzootic from the 1940s to 1960s, was presumed extinct after its last reported isolate in India in 2000."
"This study documents the emergence of genotype IV isolates...across China from 2021 to 2023, marking their return after more than two decades of presumed extinction."
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Nov 5
"Biden preemptively pardoned Fauci...retroactive to Jan. 1, 2014. That date is key…according to...molecular biologist Richard Ebright. He said 2014 'is the start date of NIH grant AI110964—the NIH grant that funded the Wuhan research that caused COVID"

childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/sen-r…
Ebright: "Fauci approved...continued funding in 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, and 2019, in violation of a moratorium in 2014-2017 and a mandate for HHS-Secretary review in 2018-."
Ebright: "Fauci knew the risks and knew that US-government policies in effect in 2014-2019 prohibited him from taking the risks, but Fauci, placing his ego over the interests of 7.9 billion members of the global public, chose to take the risks and chose to violate the policies."
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