DID WE LEARN NOTHING? NIH Funds Wuhan-Style Bat Lab at Colorado State University
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It has been four years since the world was brought to its knees by a virus that many evidence-based reports now indicate leaked from a laboratory in Wuhan, China. You would think the federal government and the “experts” in the public health establishment would have learned their lesson.
You would be wrong.
Colorado State University (CSU) is moving full steam ahead with a massive, taxpayer-funded “Bat Resource Center.”
This new facility, which is bankrolled by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the very same agency that funded dangerous research in Wuhan, will import and breed exotic bats to experiment on them with deadly pathogens.
The facility is being touted by the university as a “critical resource” to study how bats carry viruses like Ebola, Nipah, and SARS-CoV-2 without getting sick.
According to documents uncovered by the watchdog group White Coat Waste Project, this isn’t just a simple animal shelter. It is a vivarium designed to house huge colonies of bats, the very same animals identified as the reservoir for the COVID-19 virus.
We’ve now revealed that the NIH is still eager to move forward with the projectminus EHA; and gave CSU an additional$2.3millionto do so justtwo months ago.
Through a Colorado Open Records Act (CORA) request to CSU, WCW obtained photos, videos, and other documents that providenew insight into the virus-hunting and bat experiments CSU has been conducting.
Photos of CSU’s taxpayer-funded bat experiments and virus-hunting obtained by White Coat Waste via state and federal open records investigations.
Working with deadly and highly contagious pathogens such as Zika, rabies, Nipah, and various coronavirus strains,CSU white coats have been infecting bats, watching them suffer through the painful infection, and killing any bats that survive the experiments.
Similar to white coats in Wuhan, they have geneticallymodified the coronavirus; creating three new strains of the virus and infecting 162 bats with the novel pathogen.
Documents obtained via CORA detailstarvation protocols; where bats are forced into “nutritional stress” so that white coats can observe if malnourishment damages their immune system (as it does in humans and other species).
Local residents should be terrified. CSU has a history of negligence in its labs.
One of the most alarming incidents occurred when a researcher was transferring a bat from its cage to a biosafety cabinet. Despite double gloves and a leather glove, the bat reportedly caught the glove with its mouth, leaving a visible red spot on the researcher’s finger consistent with a bite.
The bat involved had reportedly been vaccinated against MERS-CoV and later challenged with a human isolate of the virus, according to the incident report.
Another report describes a researcher performing a tail vein injection on a mouse infected with Mycobacterium tuberculosis (HN878 strain). The animal moved, the vein was missed, pressure built up in the syringe, and the contents sprayed out of the biosafety cabinet and onto the researcher’s face.
Additional incidents include:
A mouse infected with Mycobacterium abscessus biting a researcher’s finger during oral dosing.
A researcher accidentally puncturing their own thumb with a lancet while collecting blood from a mouse infected with genetically modified Mycobacterium tuberculosis.
Reports of researchers handling mice without required PPE, despite signage clearly listing safety requirements.
The project was greenlit by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID). For years, NIAID has funneled American tax dollars into risky animal experiments, and now they are setting up shop in the Rocky Mountains.
Even more disturbing is CSU’s track record. According to The White Coast, the university has previously partnered with the EcoHealth Alliance, the disgraced group led by Peter Daszak that was at the center of the Wuhan gain-of-function controversy.
The proposal requested approximately $13 million. While CSU claims they have “suspended” their subcontract with EcoHealth, the connections remain a massive red flag.
Republican lawmakers have had enough. Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA) and Rep. Paul Gosar (R-AZ) have both blasted the NIH for continuing to bankroll what they call dangerous, wasteful, and unnecessary research.
In letters to NIH leadership, they’ve demanded an immediate halt to funding and called for greater accountability for the agency’s decisions.
Watch the interview below with Justin Goodman, Senior Vice President of Advocacy and Public Policy at the White Coat Waste Project (WCW):
SHOCKING: Wuhan-style bat lab is being built in Colorado
“The exact same people who were behind the gain-of-function disaster in Wuhan … are setting up a bat lab here on US soil with funding from Dr. Fauci.”
