Tag: Biological Weapons

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

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

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.

Related:

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).

Army germ lab shut down by CDC in 2019 had several ‘serious’ protocol violations that year

Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

Army germ lab shut down by CDC in 2019 had several ‘serious’ protocol violations that year

Several of the laboratory violations the CDC noted in 2019 concerned “non-human primates” infected with a “select agent”, the identity of which is unknown — it was redacted in all received documents, because disclosing the identity and location of the agent would endanger public health or safety, the agency says. In addition to Ebola, the lab works with other deadly agents like anthrax and smallpox.

Select agents are defined by the CDC as “biological agents and toxins that have been determined to have the potential to pose a severe threat to public health and safety, to animal and plant health, or to animal or plant products.”