Senate Panel’s Hearing on Gain-of-Function Research: Wuhan Lab Was Genetically Manipulating Deadly Nipah Virus, “This Is the Most Dangerous Research I Have Ever Encountered”
August 5th, 2022Have you read Rainbow Six by Tom Clancy?
I’d suggest watching all of this, August 3, 2022 Hearing on Virus Research Funding:
If you can’t take the time to watch the whole thing, here’s a clip:
Via: Epoch Times:
A forensic analysis shows that the Wuhan Insitute of Virology (WIV) was genetically manipulating the Nipah virus, a highly lethal pathogen, in violation of the Biological Weapons Convention, according to an expert who testified at a Senate subcommittee hearing on Aug. 3.
The finding was another piece of evidence showing that the controversial Wuhan lab was conducting gain-of-function research—experiments that ultimately resulted in the COVID-19 pandemic via a leak from the facility, according to Dr. Steven Quay, CEO of Atossa Therapeutics. Gain-of-function research involves enhancing the potency or transmissibility of a virus.
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But the one contaminant not accounted for in papers published by WIV was cloning vectors of the Nipah virus, according to Quay.
“This is the most dangerous research I have ever encountered,” he said in the written testimony.
The Nipah virus has a lethality of more than 60 percent, more than that of Ebola, although it’s less transmissible than the latter virus since it isn’t airborne, the expert said at the hearing. The Nipah virus is also about 60 times deadlier than COVID-19.
“[A] laboratory-acquired infection with a modified Nipah virus would make the COVID-19 pandemic look like a walk in the park,” he said.
This kind of synthetic biology is a breach of international law, according to the expert.
“It’s actually against the biological weapons treaty to take the Nipah virus apart and then put it back together again,” Quay told The Epoch Times in an interview before the hearing.
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More: Daily Signal:
Congress held its first hearing Wednesday investigating whether gain-of-function research financed by U.S. taxpayers could have led to the spread of COVID-19.
Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., chaired the hearing held by the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs subcommittee on emerging threats and spending oversight.
“Gain-of-function research has the potential to unleash a global pandemic that threatens the lives of millions, yet this is the first time the issue has been discussed in a congressional committee,” said Paul, ranking member of the subcommittee.
