Seems like the csv files from relational database to collate & share project data: wabnet.eha.io
have been emptied of data & just left with headings (or never completed which is unlikely):
1. Barcoding 2. Bat Data (note Coronavirus Columns) 3. Screening 4. Site Data
All empty of Data....
5. Trapping Events 6. Site Photographs 7. Site Videos 8. Acoustic Recordings
But Data was collected...
So, can someone ask Kevin J Olival @nycbat@EpsteinJon@klphelps Nisreen Alhmoud, Shahzad Ali, Rasit Bilgin, Keti Sidamonidze, Lela Urushadze, Luke Hamel @lukemh97 or William Karesh @Dr_Wildlife (EHA) for the data?
What Data?
270 bats in 2 countries
5,000 Bats (2018 -2023)
20,000 Samples screened for Coronaviruses
(at Lugar Lab in Georgia)
I would love to be able to ask, but they don't like inquisitive Monkeys at Eco Death Alliance ;)
Their published paper:
Bat Research Networks and Viral Surveillance: Gaps and Opportunities in Western Asia
We certainly know that some Lugar Centre collected Georgian coronavirus infected bat samples were "shipped" to Atlanta CDC BSL4 for experiments, and how they were shipped:
Documents here in Russian, mainly on Ukrainian "biolabs" & some references to Georgia, which is for me, a more interesting focus, given the bat cov research & proven transport of samples to US
The link is censored by Twitter so find it yourself using the text or image.
This thread is about Georgia, not about the so-called "ukrainian biolabs", a campaign likely being used opportunistically during the fog of war, as discussed in detail here:
Baric's hACE2 transgenic mice were shared with the WIV for GOF like virus experiments designed to "assess" the potential for coronaviruses to jump from animals to humans.
2. Baric spills his humanized mice beans to Father Racaniello during a heart rending TWIV confessional in March 2020, admitting he sent his hACE2 mice to WIV in 2018 (as part of the infamous NIAID grant mentioned above):
"Our R01 work shows that bats in South China harbor many SARSr-CoVs (50+), some of which are able to use human ACE2 to enter human cells, infecting humanized mouse models to cause SARS-like illness, and evade available therapies or vaccines"
@breakfast_dogs @gadboit @NLink247 1. Insect cell baculovirus cell cultures become contaminated with insect genomic material. 2. Replication process can lead to presence of viral DNA & cellular components in culture medium. 3. This LEADS to contamination of viral product with baculovirus & insect cell-derived DNA.
@breakfast_dogs @gadboit @NLink247 Contamination
4. Expression of SC-2 Spike RBD Using the Insect Cell-Baculovirus System