Canada’s National Microbiology Lab in Winnipeg
March 6th, 2020Dr. Frank Plummer, a scientist who received $8.3 million in grant money from the Gates Foundation, and was the director of Canada’s National Microbiology Lab when it received coronavirus samples, died in Kenya weeks after the official start of the 2019 coronavirus outbreak… Which happened weeks after a Gates Foundation simulation of a coronavirus outbreak.
We also have a wrist slap punishment for smuggled Ebola materials and Chinese scientists in, “Policy breach.”
Something is very wrong here.
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In 2000, he accepted the position of Scientific Director General of the National Microbiology Laboratory, Health Canada, in Winnipeg. In 2001, Dr. Plummer returned to Canada and rejoined the Department of Microbiology at the University of Manitoba and subsequently in 2003 was appointed Director General of the Centre for Infectious Disease Prevention and Control (CIDPC).
In June 2005, Dr. Plummer and his team received $8.3 million US over five years from the Gates Foundation to continue the studies on Kenyan prostitutes and develop a potential vaccine against HIV.
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In 2009, a former researcher at the lab was convicted of trying to smuggle genetic material from the Ebola virus across the Manitoba-North Dakota border.
Konan Michel Yao had 22 vials of the substance in the trunk of his car when he tried to cross the border.
The vials were wrapped in aluminum foil inside a glove and packaged in a plastic bag, along with electrical wires.
Yao told officers he was taking the vials to his new job with the National Institutes of Health at the Biodefense Research Laboratory in Bethesda, Md., because he didn’t want to start from scratch in his research.
Yao was sentenced to 17 days in jail, which he had already served, and fined $500.
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2013: Canada’s National Lab Has Sample of New Coronavirus:
Canada’s National Microbiology Laboratory in Winnipeg has a sample of the new coronavirus that is causing infections in a number of countries, most notably Saudi Arabia.
Scientific director Dr. Frank Plummer says the lab obtained the virus from the Erasmus Medical Centre in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
The Dutch lab was the one that first identified the new virus last June in a sample from a Saudi man who had died of a mysterious illness.
Plummer says the coronavirus arrived at the Winnipeg facility on May 4.
He says the lab is growing up stocks of the virus and will use it to assess diagnostic tests being used in Canada.
As well Winnipeg scientists plan to do some work to see which animal species can be infected with the new virus.
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2014: Dr. Frank Plummer Ended 14-Year Tenure as Head of the National Microbiology Laboratory:
Dr. Frank Plummer ended his 14-year award-winning career with the Level 4 virology containment facility in Winnipeg at the end of March.
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“Dr. Plummer stepped down for personal reasons,” said Taylor.
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2019: Chinese Researcher Escorted from Infectious Disease Lab Amid RCMP Investigation:
A researcher with ties to China was recently escorted out of the National Microbiology Lab (NML) in Winnipeg amid an RCMP investigation into what’s being described as a possible “policy breach.”
Dr. Xiangguo Qiu, her husband Keding Cheng and an unknown number of her students from China were removed from Canada’s only level-4 lab on July 5, CBC News has learned.
A Level 4 virology facility is a lab equipped to work with the most serious and deadly human and animal diseases. That makes the Arlington Street lab one of only a handful in North America capable of handling pathogens requiring the highest level of containment, such as Ebola.
Security access for the couple and the Chinese students was revoked, according to sources who work at the lab and do not want to be identified because they fear consequences for speaking out.
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Cheng also works at the lab as a biologist. He has published research papers on HIV infections, Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS), E. coli infections and Creutzfeldt-Jakob Syndrome.
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2019: Questions Surround Canadian Shipment of Deadly Viruses to China:
Canada’s National Microbiology Laboratory shipped Ebola and Henipah viruses to Beijing on March 31, raising suspicions from experts in biochemical warfare, who say they think China may use the pathogens to develop offensive biological agents.
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December 2019: First Covid2019 Case Using Absurd Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market Narrative
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2020: Dr. Frank Plummer Dies in Kenya:
World-renowned scientist Dr. Frank Plummer of Winnipeg has died.
Plummer, 67, was in Kenya, where he was a keynote speaker at the annual meeting of the University of Nairobi’s collaborative centre for research and training in HIV/AIDS/STIs.
Dr. Larry Gelmon, who helped set up that meeting, said Plummer collapsed and was taken to hospital in Nairobi, where he was pronounced dead on arrival.
No confirmed cause of death has yet been released.
Plummer was born and raised in Winnipeg, where he headed up Canada’s National Microbiology Laboratory for several years.
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Newly-released access-to-information documents reveal details about a shipment of deadly pathogens last year from Canada’s National Microbiology Lab to China — confirming for the first time who sent them, what exactly was shipped, and where it went.
CBC News had already reported about the shipment of Ebola and Henipah viruses but there’s now confirmation one of the scientists escorted from the lab in Winnipeg amid an RCMP investigation last July was responsible for exporting the pathogens to the Wuhan Institute of Virology four months earlier.
Dr. Xiangguo Qiu, her husband Keding Cheng and her students from China were removed from Canada’s only level-4 lab over what’s described as a possible “policy breach.” The Public Health Agency of Canada had asked the RCMP to get involved several months earlier.
The virus shipments are not related to the outbreak of COVID-19 or research into the pandemic, Canadian officials said.
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“It is suspicious. It is alarming. It is potentially life-threatening,” said Amir Attaran, a law professor and epidemiologist at the University of Ottawa.
“We have a researcher who was removed by the RCMP from the highest security laboratory that Canada has for reasons that government is unwilling to disclose. The intelligence remains secret. But what we know is that before she was removed, she sent one of the deadliest viruses on Earth, and multiple varieties of it to maximize the genetic diversity and maximize what experimenters in China could do with it, to a laboratory in China that does dangerous gain of function experiments. And that has links to the Chinese military.”
Gain of function experiments are when a natural pathogen is taken into the lab, made to mutate, and then assessed to see if it has become more deadly or infectious.
Most countries, including Canada, don’t do these kinds of experiments — because they’re considered too dangerous, Attaran said.
“The Wuhan lab does them and we have now supplied them with Ebola and Nipah viruses. It does not take a genius to understand that this is an unwise decision,” he said.
“I am extremely unhappy to see that the Canadian government shared that genetic material.”
Hat tip, excellent chrono. Thanks Kevin
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I just found this. Flight 752 shootdown in Iran!?
https://www.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/fbqvtc/victims_aboard_ukraine_international_airlines/
How many PhDs can you pack on one flight???
https://www.cbc.ca/news2/interactives/flightps752/
Forough Khadem
Winnipeg
Forough had a PhD in immunology from the University of Manitoba.
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Ghazal Nourian
London
Ghazal was a PhD student who had recently joined the Nanophotonic Energy Materials lab at Western University in London, Ont., and was conducting research on algorithmic fabrication of 3D nanostructures.
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Milad Nahavandi
London
Milad was a PhD student at London, Ont.’s Western University, studying chemical and biochemical engineering.
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Fareed Arasteh
Ottawa
Fareed was a PhD student at Ottawa’s Carleton University, studying molecular genetics. He had returned to Iran over the holidays to marry his longtime girlfriend, Maral.
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There were many others in other disciplines.