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Billy Bostickson 🏴👁&👁 🆓 Profile picture
@BillyBostickson
Jan 23, 2022 • 36 tweets • 17 min read • Read on X
An Examination of the Potential Threat of a State-Sponsored Biological Attack Against the United States

2019 Master's Thesis

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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…

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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)

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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…

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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” Image
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:
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and
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However, for once, google cache saves the day

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20,000 Caged rats and mice

800 + Monkeys Image
1300 Types of genetically engineered mice
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A well known supplier of Monkeys.... Image
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Video

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Taking a break, to be continued.
The "chinese lottery" website can actually be accessed in all its tedious glory by installing a noscript extensión

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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…

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Operation Cauldron, The Stuff of Monkey Nightmares

More Chinese Monkey Research and Breeding Programs to come tomorrow
5 species of primates are used in China for biomedical research
2 species, crab-eating macaque & common marmoset are alien
3 species, pigtail, stumptail & rhesus macaques, are indigenous
Those used for biomedical research are crab-eating & rhesus macaques
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK22179…
The following information on monkey breeding centres in China is from 2001.

There have been some changes...

For example, Hubei Topgene Biotechnology, the new supplier to WIV and WIBP was not listed 20 years ago. Image
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Tables in previous tweet are from

Chinese Primate Status and Primate Captive Breeding for Biomedical Research in China

ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK22179…
From 2004, another table offers more information

Highlighted is Laboratory Animal Center of Chinese Academy of Military Medical Sciences in Beijing

From:

Notice of State Forestry Administration on Strengthening the Management of Experimental Monkeys

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To be continued..Homework

China has become the Mecca for those deluded Chinese & Foreign Researchers keen to abuse monkeys on the altar of Science.

While author Xin Hao gloats over low labor costs

Monkey Research in China
Developing a Natural Resource

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Please Note

This thread is an investigation of the breeding centres, laboratory research evidence, logistics and locations of possible Biological Warfare research in China using non human primates.

It may lead nowhere or it might lead somewhere, that remains to be determined. Image
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@Ticklicker56 @angie_rasmussen @Dissenting2020 @DrStrangeLovett @Rebecca21951651 @All_New_to_This @VaughnMises @R_H_Ebright @Florin_Uncovers @ban_epp_gofroc @MJnanostretch @Muller_Lab @SolidEvidence @ydeigin @ciukzwil @tgof137 @StavaRune @VBruttel @FondueMean @tom335363 @BioSRP @stevenemassey @jbloom_lab @BallouxFrancois @Ayjchan @mattwridley Not sure what they have done since Burgdorfer's "swiss agent" experiments, apart from building tick moats & annoying locals

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Dr. Rasmussen can tell us or she can ask Dr. Trout

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@Ticklicker56 @angie_rasmussen @Dissenting2020 @DrStrangeLovett @Rebecca21951651 @All_New_to_This @VaughnMises @R_H_Ebright @Florin_Uncovers @ban_epp_gofroc @MJnanostretch @Muller_Lab @SolidEvidence @ydeigin @ciukzwil @tgof137 @StavaRune @VBruttel @FondueMean @tom335363 @BioSRP @stevenemassey @jbloom_lab @BallouxFrancois @Ayjchan @mattwridley RML expertise in biodefense inlcudes tick & flea agents, so I doubt she would want to discuss how many ticks they have or what they inject them with.

federalregister.gov/documents/2004…

In the bad old days they injected them with yellow fever & other nasties for dispersal by planes.
@Ticklicker56 @angie_rasmussen @Dissenting2020 @DrStrangeLovett @Rebecca21951651 @All_New_to_This @VaughnMises @R_H_Ebright @Florin_Uncovers @ban_epp_gofroc @MJnanostretch @Muller_Lab @SolidEvidence @ydeigin @ciukzwil @tgof137 @StavaRune @VBruttel @FondueMean @tom335363 @BioSRP @stevenemassey @jbloom_lab @BallouxFrancois @Ayjchan @mattwridley Also work of Jeffrey M. Grabowski

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Work on tick-borne pathogens at the Virology Lab at RML is funded by the Intramural Research Program, NIAID, NIH

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Jan 20
1. Latest Victim of Flo Debarre's "Doxxng" Crusade

Is ME!

I got a disturbing & threatening email, mentioning:

"room for negotiation about the name"

"1st story is often the one that sticks, even if it's not accurate..your chance to negotiate terms"

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2. Le Monde

The reporter she is working with, William Audureau @Willvs , seems a principled journalist and did not know of her nefarious doxxing activities against me and other members of DRASTIC and our supporters in Academia, of which he dissaproves. Image
@Willvs 3. Best way to deal with bullies is to expose them!

I thus emailed CNRS, Cyber Security Office & the Minister of the Interior to complain

presidence.secretariat@cnrs.fr
presse@cnrs.fr ,
b.retailleau@senat .fr @BrunoRetailleau
contact@cecyf.fr
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An unexpected result in a UK Porton Down Study

"Participant 12" (maybe a soldier at Aldershot). after infection with SC2, over time experienced a substantial number of mutations suggestive of rapid evolution.

Yet he was healthy & not immunocompetent?

genomemedicine.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…
They don't consider the possibility of quasispecies viral swarms as a possible factor in Participant 12?

Quasispecies implications for virus persistence (Domingo, 1999)

pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC71…

Quasispecies theory & emerging viruses
(Sardanyes, 2024)

nature.com/articles/s4429… Image
Overview of Viral Quasispecies

sciencedirect.com/topics/immunol…

Quite good Wikipedia Page

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viral_qua…

Viral quasispecies (Andino & Domingo, 2015)

sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Historical Perspective on the Quasispecies Concept (Domingo, 2021)

annualreviews.org/docserver/full…
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🧵DTIC MIL WUHAN/COVID-19 DOCUMENTS

Just dumping these here like Santa!

Maybe you will find something of interest?

Maybe a lump of coal or a potato!

1. Novel Coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19): Q&A on Global Implications and Responses (May 14, 2020)

apps.dtic.mil/sti/pdfs/AD117…
2. Award Number: W81XWH-11-2-0148 (2013)

WIV, Wuhan University, Le Duc and GNL mentioned

TITLE: National Biocontainment Training Center

PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR: James LeDuc, PhD

University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston

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3. Features, Evaluation, & Treatment of Coronavirus

Tedious Paper

March 1, 2021.

apps.dtic.mil/sti/pdfs/AD112…
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Historical Perspective

On the many workers' lives lost trying to build it:

Who were they and where did they come from?
2. First Attempt (French)

In the 1880s, the French tried but failed to build a Panama Canal.

They finally gave up in 1889, after years of fighting a recalcitrant landscape, ferocious disease and spiralling costs

AND the deaths of 22,000 workers! .

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3. From Suez to Panama

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Bankruptcy!

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Good luck using your critical thinking skills to seperate wheat from chaff so that you can decide what is propaganda & what is fact.

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