{"id":80031,"date":"2021-09-09T13:29:00","date_gmt":"2021-09-09T13:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/organicconsumers.org\/?p=80031"},"modified":"2021-09-09T13:29:00","modified_gmt":"2021-09-09T13:29:00","slug":"us-funded-wuhan-virus-labs-research-make-diseases-more-deadly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/organicconsumers.org\/us-funded-wuhan-virus-labs-research-make-diseases-more-deadly\/","title":{"rendered":"US \u2018Funded Wuhan Virus Lab\u2019s Research to Make Diseases More Deadly\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The US was funding&nbsp;<a data-id=\"101\" data-m=\"{&quot;i&quot;:101,&quot;p&quot;:58,&quot;n&quot;:&quot;partnerLink&quot;,&quot;y&quot;:24,&quot;o&quot;:33}\" hasenterkeydown=\"1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/china\/index.html\" tabindex=\"0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">China<\/a>&#8216;s controversial Wuhan laboratory as it embarked on a secretive project to identify deadly viruses with pandemic potential, a new book has claimed.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>According to What Really Happened in Wuhan: the Cover-Ups, the Conspiracies and the Classified Research, by Sharri Markson, the Wuhan Institute of Virology was creating a database of potentially lethal viruses with the help of Shi Zhengli &#8211; aka &#8216;batwoman&#8217;.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Ms Zhengli, who earned her nickname sampling thousands of bats in remote caves, collected 19,000 samples while at Wuhan, with 2,481 of those containing coronaviruses.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Her work was all part of China&#8217;s own version of the Global Virome Project (GVP).&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The GVP was supposed to be an international collaborative effort to identify within 10 years all of the planet&#8217;s viruses which have pandemic or epidemic potential in humans.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>But during a visit to the Wuhan institute in March 2018, US career diplomat Rick Switzer &#8211; alongside US consul-general Jamie Fouss &#8211; found that China had launched its own version &#8211; in a lab with poor safety practices and no US oversight.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US was funding China&#8217;s controversial Wuhan laboratory as it embarked on a secretive project to identify deadly viruses with pandemic potential, a new book has claimed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":80032,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1024,1031],"tags":[33,36,40],"organicbytes":[],"countries":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.6 - 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