01-25-2020, 05:38 AM
Inside the Chinese lab poised to study world's most dangerous pathogens
Maximum-security biolab is part of plan to build network of BSL-4 facilities across China.
David Cyranoski
22 February 2017 Updated: 23 February 2017
WUHAN, CHINA
https://www.nature.com/news/inside-the-c...ns-1.21487
"But worries surround the Chinese lab, too. The SARS virus has escaped from high-level containment facilities in Beijing multiple times, notes Richard Ebright, a molecular biologist at Rutgers University in Piscataway, New Jersey. "
“These facilities are inherently dual use,” he says. The prospect of ramping up opportunities to inject monkeys with pathogens also worries, rather than excites, him: “They can run, they can scratch, they can bite.”
What are the odds that China wouldn't use their first BSL-4 lab to study biological weapons? I'm not suggesting this new coronavirus is an escaped biological weapon but it being located virtually ground zero to the place where China studies biological weapons is quite the coincidence.
Maximum-security biolab is part of plan to build network of BSL-4 facilities across China.
David Cyranoski
22 February 2017 Updated: 23 February 2017
WUHAN, CHINA
https://www.nature.com/news/inside-the-c...ns-1.21487
"But worries surround the Chinese lab, too. The SARS virus has escaped from high-level containment facilities in Beijing multiple times, notes Richard Ebright, a molecular biologist at Rutgers University in Piscataway, New Jersey. "
“These facilities are inherently dual use,” he says. The prospect of ramping up opportunities to inject monkeys with pathogens also worries, rather than excites, him: “They can run, they can scratch, they can bite.”
What are the odds that China wouldn't use their first BSL-4 lab to study biological weapons? I'm not suggesting this new coronavirus is an escaped biological weapon but it being located virtually ground zero to the place where China studies biological weapons is quite the coincidence.