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Jan 23 • 29 tweets • 14 min read
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…

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"
Video

facebook.com/topgenebio/vid…
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

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1. Gloating Daszak

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1. What's up with @WHO SAGO?

"WHO wants SAGO to also examine the possibility of a laboratory accident being responsible for the emergence of SARS-CoV-2"

(December, 2021)

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“WHO has to stop wasting time pandering to unsubstantiated lab leak notions”

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Historical Curiosities

Assassination of William the Silent

Gérard returned in July 1584 with 2 wheel-lock pistols.

William was having dinner.

After he left and walked downstairs, van Uylenburgh heard Gérard shoot William in the chest at close range.

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