Tag: Bats

Scientists Find a New Coronavirus in Bats That Is Resistant to Current Vaccines

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

Scientists Find a New Coronavirus in Bats That Is Resistant to Current Vaccines

The findings come as the World Health Organization’s (WHO) ACT—Accelerator’s Council Tracking and Accelerating Progress—working group report that continued response to the COVID-19 pandemic, in the form of testing, vaccinations, and treatments, is stalling. With lower global immunity to the current SARS-CoV-2 virus, combating any new pathogens, including new coronaviruses like Khosta-2, would become more difficult. According to the latest data collected by the WHO, a quarter of people around the world still have not received a primary series of COVID-19 vaccination.

They just won’t give up! It’s over!

Statement by Permanent Representative Vassily Nebenzia at UNSC Briefing on Biological Laboratories in Ukraine, March 18, 2022

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

Statement by Permanent Representative Vassily Nebenzia at UNSC Briefing on Biological Laboratories in Ukraine, March 18, 2022

The Kharkov laboratory was also home to project P-781 on the study of ways of transmitting diseases to humans through bats. This work was done jointly with the infamous R. Lugar Center in Tbilisi.

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Leaked Lugar Center Docs on DoD Study of Novel Coronaviruses from 2017-2019

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https://youtu.be/LpGUaDljTQI

H/T: American Everyman

New data leak from the Pentagon biolaboratory in Georgia (Archived).

IIn 2017 the US Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) launched a $6.5 million project on bats and coronaviruses in Western Asia (Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Turkey and Jordan) with the Lugar Center being the local laboratory for this genetic research. The duration of the program is 5 years and has been implemented by the non-profit US organisation Eco Health Alliance.

The project’s objectives are: 1. Capture and non-lethally sample 5,000 bats in 5-year period (2017-2022) 2. Collect 20,000 samples (i.e. oral, rectal swabs and/or feces, and blood) and screen for coronaviruses using consensus PCR at regional labs in Georgia and Jordan. According to the project presentation, Eco Health Alliance already sampled 270 bats of 9 species in three Western Asian countries: 90 individual bats in Turkey (Aug 2018), Georgia (Sept 2018), and Jordan (Oct 2018).

Coincidentally, the same Pentagon contractor tasked with the US DoD bat-research program – Eco Health Alliance, USA, also collected bats and isolated coronaviruses along with Chinese scientists at the Wuhan Institute of Virology. EcoHealth Alliance received a $3.7 million grant from the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) to collect and study coronaviruses in bats in China from 2014 to 2019.

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Project G-2101: Pentagon biolab discovered MERS and SARS-like coronaviruses in bats (Archived).

US diplomats involved in trafficking of human blood and pathogens for secret military program (Archived).