EcoHealth Alliance Gets Big Bucks for Risky Virus Research

Peter Daszak, President of EcoHealth Alliance, is a top technical collaborator, grant columnist and spokesperson for virus hunters and gain-of-function/ dual-use researchers, in labs both military and civilian.

Daszak works with dozens of high-containment laboratories various regions of the world that obtain pathogens and use genetic engineering and synthetic biology to do them more virulent, epidemic, lethal or drug-resistant. These include laboratories controlled by the U.S. Department of Defense, in countries in the former Soviet Union, the Middle East, South East Asia and Africa.

Many of these labs are staffed by former biological artilleries scientists.( See Arms Watch’s reports. 1) Before the Biological Weapons Convention was ratified, such research was announced what it is: biological weapons experiment. Now, it’s euphemistically called gain-of-function or dual-use research.

Gain-of-function research to adjust coronaviruses for the infection of humans2 goes back to 1999 or earlier, 3 years before the first novel coronavirus eruption. On behalf of the U.S. authority, often the military forces, Daszak rubs the globe for animal pathogens and raises them back to the lab to be catalogued, investigated and influenced.

Daszak and others justify their experiment this lane: If/ When an eruption of a brand-new virus pass, they can compare it to the ones in their labs, and maybe glean how the story virus surfaced. A recent Wired magazine article4 quoting Daszak described how a virus collected in 2012 was found to be a 96% join to SARS-CoV-2 in 2020 😛 TAGEND

“The search for the source of SARS- which killed more than 770 parties twenty years ago- has given us a headstart for the current hunt.

Wearing hazmat suits and gave with drizzle cyberspaces, a crew from the Wuhan Institute of Virology, along with the ecologist and chairman of EcoHealth Alliance Peter Daszak, betted into limestone caves to collect faeces and blood tests from thousands of roosting bats before testing them for fiction coronaviruses in the lab.

‘At the time, we were looking for SARS-related viruses, and this one was 20 percentage different, ‘ says Daszak. ‘We thought it’s interesting, but not high-risk. So we didn’t do anything about it and introduced it in the freezer.’

The group has detected around 500 bat-borne viruses in China over the last 16 years, but merely flagged those that most resembled SARS to the authorities- a lack of funding meant they couldn’t further investigate the virus stres now known to be 96 percentage genetically same to the virus that causes Covid-1 9. “

Interesting though that floor is, it fails to explain how SARS-CoV-2 advanced. Some scientists say it would make 50 years5 for RaTG1 3 to turn into SARS-CoV-2. Others propose theories6 on how the virus might have progressed so quickly, yet still suspect that it escaped from the Wuhan lab.

Certainly, to learn that the closest known relative to SARS-CoV-2 has been in the care of the gain-of-function researchers at the Wuhan Institute of Virology( WIV) for seven years does nothing to allay mistrusts that the virus polluted humen only after being fidgeted with in a lab. 7

Still, the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases is going all-in on virus hunting. The institute merely announced a five-year, $82 -million8 investing in a new world-wide network of Centers for Research in Emerging Infectious Diseases, including gain-of-function experiments to “determine what genetic or other converts spawn[ animal] pathogens capable of polluting humans.”

Daszak’s EcoHealth Alliance are able to obtain $7.5 million9 from project grants. This is on top of $ 100.9 million1 0 that EcoHealth Alliance has received in government gifts and contracts since 2003.( What was that Daszak said about how “a lack of funding meant they couldn’t further investigate the virus striving now known to be 96 -percent genetically similar to the virus that starts Covid-1 9″11 )?

Critics1 2 of virus hunting say scientists like Daszak could make a greater contribution to human health by vanishing after the viruses that generally infect humans , not the ones that never have. According to a 2018 Smithsonian Magazine report: 13

“Not everyone is considered that hear viruses and their hotspots is the best way to prevent pandemics. Dr. Robert B. Tesh, a virologist at the University of Texas Medical Branch, says we don’t understand fairly about zoonotic viruses to create predictive simulates. ‘A lot of the stuff they develop is publicity . … It’s more PR than science.'”

Daszak’s investigate might be more hype1 4 and public relations than discipline, but the Department of Homeland Security’s National Biosurveillance Integration Center( NBIC) has chosen to rely on it. NBIC rendered Daszak’s EcoHealth Alliance a $2.2 -million1 5 contract( 2016 -2 019) to create a “Ground Truth Network”1 6 of “subject matter experts” who could accommodate “contextual intelligence pertaining to biological events.”

The context1 7 Daszak inevitably provides is a compelling one. Destruction of woods and other encroachments on wildlife habitats, peculiarly the hunt of wild animals and the sale of live animals in soggy business, is forcing humans and swine into painful closenes. This is bad for susceptible and endangered categories, as well as for humen who find themselves in increasing probability for contracting romance zoonotic diseases.

Who isn’t appalled and appalled to learn that parties eat at-bats, or that marvelously strange and adorable animals you’ve never heard of — pangolins, civet “cat-o-nine-tails” — have had their habitats destroyed and are now being sold for meat at live animal business? Daszak’s framing of the question — what has come to be known as the One Health approach — has been sincerely embraced by the U.S. military.

But what if the narratives being spun by Daszak and his fellow government-supported subject matter professionals aren’t supported by the evidence? Let’s look at EcoHealth Alliance’s narrative about Ebola and bushmeat.

Untrue Narrative, Tragic Outcomes

From 2011 to 2014, Ecohealth Alliance had a $164,480 purchase order contract from the Center for Disease Control in Pittsburgh for “Bushmeat.” No more information than that is available on that contract( HHSD2 002011 M41641P18 ), but the money likely money a newspaper Daszak and my honourable colleagues be made available in 2012.

The 2012 newspaper, 19 “Zoonotic Viruses Associated with Illegally Imported Wildlife Concoction, ” is available in August 2014, at the high levels of the West African Ebola pandemic, as the basis for a Newsweek article entitled, “Smuggled Bushmeat Is Ebola’s Back Door to America.”2 0

The article, which excerpted an EcoHealth Alliance spokesman, spread a false( not to mention racist and xenophobic) narrative, one that subsequently would be fully debunked, 21 that bushmeat smuggled to the U.S. from Africa could channel Ebola to Americans.

In January 2015, a fulfill of the UK Bushmeat Working Group convened. The group countered Daszak’s misinformation with the facts of the case, in an article entitled, “Ebola and Bushmeat: Myth and Reality.”2 2 The essay territory 😛 TAGEND

“As the Ebola virus can remain workable in untreated corpses for up to 3-4 periods, there is a risk of transporting it to bushmeat markets( although there is no evidence of this to date ).

However, the risk of transmitting Ebola in bushmeat overseas to Europe or the USA is extremely low, given the total cros go and the fact that these carcasses are often smoked( which probably inactivates the virus ). The gamble of spread to new regions lies with the fluctuation of infected parties , not fouled meat.”

Tragically, the misinformation about bushmeat as a primary campaign of Ebola transfer have now been communicated to West Africans in the midst of the crisis, through international health companies, including Daszak’s funder, 23 the U.S. Centres for Disease Control and Prevention( CDC ).

Daszak’s misinformation campaign overshadowed the truth — that the only way Ebola was actually being given during the course of its pandemic was via linked with the bodily fluids of people sick with Ebola, or with their corpses.

Perpetuating Mythical Theories

The SARS pandemic is another speciman where Daszak’s presumptions didn’t pan out. It is commonly accepted that the SARS pandemic began in 2002,24 when humans caught a bat virus from civet “cat-o-nine-tails” at a moisten grocery in Guangdong, China. But Daszak and his collaborators acknowledge they have no evidence to explain how the virus hurried from at-bats to civets to humen.

SARS-CoV was is located within civets at the Guangdong wet market, but civets aren’t the natural supply of this virus. At-bats are. Simply the civets at world markets — and no farm-raised or wild civets — carried the virus. None of the animal brokers handled with civets at the market had SARS.

When Daszak and his collaborators at the WIV2 5 searched the cave in Yunnan for stress of coronavirus same to human versions , no single bat actually had SARS. Genetic parts of the various sprains would have to be recombined to make up the human version. Adding to the disarray, Yunnan is about 1,000 kilometers from Guangdong.

So, how did viruses from at-bats in Yunnan combine to become deadly to humans, and then travel to civets and beings in Guangdong, without stimulate any illnesses along the way during this 1,000 kilometer trip-up? No one knows. Simply like no one knows how SARS-CoV-2, the virus that reasons COVID-1 9, leapt from at-bats to pangolins to humans.

( The most recent study, “Broad host range of SARS-CoV-2 predicted by comparative and structural analysis of ACE2 in vertebrates”2 6 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Discipline, 27 pictured that the SARS-CoV-2, which pollutes human cells through fastening of the viral Spike protein to ACE2, has a “very high” binding affinity to ACE2 in “Old World” monkeys apes, and humen.

But in at-bats, the binding affinity is “low” and in pangolins it is “very low.” The scribes also indicated that “neither experimental infection nor in vitro infection with SARS-CoV-2 has been reported for pangolins.”)

Daszak continues to tell his bat-origin story, 28 but the science doesn’t back it up. That — along with the fact that dozens of labs impart “gain-of-function”2 9 study on at-bat coronaviruses and there are troubling safety issues3 0 at these laboratories — is why the National Institutes of Health( NIH) is investigating the opportunities that SARS-CoV-2 escaped from a lab.

Inquiring Judgment at the NIH Want to Know

On July 8, the NIH sent a letter3 1 to Daszak asking EcoHealth Alliance to arrange for an inspection of the WIV by an outside crew that would examine the facility’s lab and records “with specific attention to addressing the question of whether WIV personnel had SARS-CoV-2 in their wealth prior to December 2019. ”

The WIV and the Wuhan University School of Public Health are listed as subcontractors for EcoHealth Alliance under a $3.7 -million NIH grant3 2 entitled, “Understanding the Risk of Bat Coronavirus Emergence.”

The two institutions also cultivated as traitors under another $2.6 -million grant, 33 “Risk of Viral Emergence from Bat, ” and under EcoHealth Alliance’s largest single sources of financing, a $44.2 million sub-grant3 4 from the University of California at Davis for the PREDICT project( 2015 -2 020 ).

It’s the $44.2 -million PREDICT concession that EcoHealth Alliance used to fund3 5 the gain-of-function experiment by WIV scientist Zhengli Shi and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s Ralph Baric. 36

Shi and Baric utilized genetic engineering and synthetic biology to create a “new bat SARS-like virus … that can hop immediately from its at-bat legions to humans.” Daszak described the study being done by Shi and Baric in a 2019 interrogation: 37

“You can manipulate them[ coronaviruses] in the lab pretty easily. Spike protein drives a great deal of what the fuck is up with the coronavirus, zoonotic gamble. So, you can get the sequence, you can build the protein, and we work with Ralph Baric at UNC to do this. Insert it into a linchpin of another virus, and do some work in the lab.”

The work, “A SARS-like gather of flowing bat coronaviruses proves potential for human emergence, “3 8 wrote in Nature in 2015 during the NIH’s moratorium3 9 on gain-of-function research, was grandfathered in because it was initiated before the suspension( officially called the U.S. Government Deliberative Process Research Funding Pause on Selected Gain-of-Function Research Involving Influenza, MERS and SARS Viruses ), and because the request by Shi and Baric to continue their research during the moratorium was approved by the NIH.

As a condition of book, Nature, like most scientific journals, requires4 0 columnists to submit new DNA and RNA cycles to GenBank, the U.S. National Center for Biotechnology Information Database. Yet the new SARS-like virus Shi and Baric caused wasn’t deposited4 1 in GenBank until May 2020.

Why Stop With Wuhan?

NIH is right to require that the WIV’s lab and records be opened to outside supervisors. But why is the authority concentrates on only one of EcoHealth Alliance’s projects, when the syndicate has received $ 100.9 million4 2 in concessions, chiefly from the Department of Defense, to sample, store and study bat coronaviruses at laboratories around the world?

Coronaviruses, both sets of that have been collected from animals and those that have been created through genetic engineering and synthetic biology, at all of these laboratories should be compared with SARS-CoV-2.

Daszak’s traitors working under contracts with the Department of Health and Human Service( HHS) aren’t let to conduct gain-of-function research unless exclusively has agreed to do so by the Potential Pandemic Pathogen Care and Oversight( P3CO) committee. This committee was set up as a condition for lifting4 3 the 2014 -2 017 suspension on gain-of-function research.

The P3CO committee are present in confidential. Not even a membership index has been exhausted. The only information provided to the public is that Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response Robert Kadlec4 4 commissioned HHS Senior Science Advisor Christian Hassell4 5 as its chair.

It’s time to open the records of the PC3O committee’s exchanges and decisions to examine all gain-of-function research on coronaviruses. And every laboratory controlling these viruses should have their coronaviruses compared to SARS-CoV-2.

The Pentagon’s Defense Threat Reduction Agency( DTRA) for its Cooperative Biological Engagement Program( now called the Biological Threat Reduction Program) isn’t supposed to fund gain-of-function( what they call “dual-use”4 6) experiment at all.

It’s time to determine whether this prohibition on “dual-use” funding has been adhered to, especially in light of the investments the Pentagon is making across the globe in the construction of brand-new laboratories for the “consolidation and securing of pathogens.” DTRA’s duty was to raze the biological artilleries programs of hostile or destabilized countries.

Instead it is being used to develop new biological artilleries programs in dozens of countries around the world-wide.

Even if these programmes are exclusively defensive, they proliferate, around the globe, pathogens with pandemic possible, even though it’s been difficult to keep these dangerous germs under govern here in the U.S.( See “The Global Proliferation of High-Containment Biological Laboratories: Understanding the Phenomenon and Its Implication, “4 7 and the Government Accountability Office’s reports, “Biological Select Agents and Toxins: Activities Needed to Improve Management of DOD’s Biosafety and Biosecurity Program, “4 8 and “High-containment Laboratories: Comprehensive and Up-to-Date Policy and Stronger Oversight Mechanisms Needed to Improve Safety”4 9 ).

EcoHealth’s Tentacles Reach Far and Wide

EcoHealth Alliance are largely participating in the Pentagon’s proliferation of weapons high-containment biological laboratories. It is conducting DTR-Afunded work in the following countries, which are all participants in the Pentagon’s Biological Threat Reduction Program. 50

* Tanzania — In Tanzania, a country that is considered only “partly free, “5 1 which has a history of foreign medical experimentation5 2 and which didn’t ratify the Biological Weapons Convention5 3 until 2019, EcoHealth Alliance has a$ 5-million Pentagon contract, 54 “Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever: Reducing an Emerging Health Threat in Tanzania.”

Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever( CCHF) 55 is a tick-borne disease, initially simply infecting swine, that was discovered by Ottis and Calista Causey while working for the Rockefeller Foundation in Nigeria. There was only ever one case5 6 of CCHF in Tanzania, and that was in 1986.

Gain-of-function research5 7 on CCHF is being conducted at the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility( NBAF) to determine the “mechanisms of CCHF transmission including development of CCHF tick and animal infection methods and CCHF tick-animal communication models.”( The National Bio and Agro Defense Facility will take over the mission of the Plum Island Animal Disease Center and become the lead-in equipment for Foreign Animal Disease research .)

The National Bio and Agro Defense Facility Biosafety Level 4( BSL4) Zoonotic and Emerging Infectious Disease team’s CCHF Virus Surveillance Project5 8 is investigating “the interface between ticking vectors, sheep and pastoralist and resource-poor cultivate communities in Tanzania” as well as the disease’s “molecular pathogenesis.”

Tanzania is the origin of chikungunya, 59 a mosquito-borne virus that the U.S. has long cultivated6 0 as a possible biological weapon. are consistent with a patent6 1 held by the University of Texas for a “chimeric” chikungunya virus formed through genetic engineering and synthetic biology 😛 TAGEND

“The 39 documented laboratory infections reported by HHS in 1981 strongly suggest that Chikungunya virus is infectious via aerosol direction. Chikungunya virus was being weaponized by the U.S. Army army when the offensive platform was terminated.”

Tanzania is one6 2 of the countries where bat coronaviruses were collected for the PREDICT6 3 job. Tanzania has one Biosafety Level 3( BSL3) laboratory, the privately owned Ifakara Health Institute, 64 which is partnering with PREDICT6 5 to propel “concurrent surveillance of wildlife and parties in at-risk areas for viral spillover and spread.”

* South africans — In South africans, which had a notorious apartheid-era biological weapons curriculum, 66 EcoHealth Alliance has a$ 5-million Pentagon contract6 7( 2019 -2 024 ), “Reducing the Threat of Rift Valley Fever Through Ecology, Epidemiology and Socio-economics.” This is on top of a $4.9 -million grant6 8( 2014 -2 019 ), “Understanding Rift Valley Fever in the Republic of South Africa.”

The last-place human outbreak6 9 of Rift Valley Fever in South Africa occurred in 2010, when the government reported 237 established cases, including 26 deaths from nine provinces. But there were also a few cases7 0 in 2018 among farmworkers who slaughtered fouled swine during an outbreak in livestock. The fever can spread from swine to humans if they come into contact with the blood and other body fluids of an polluted animal.

The U.S. armed has conducted offensive biological weapons research7 1 on Rift Valley Fever. South Africa’s biological artilleries program7 2 included the weaponization of Rift Valley Fever virus benefits from the U.S. authority.

Known as Project Coast, South Africa’s biological weapons platform slaughtered anti-apartheid activists with narcotics and deadlies, and aimed a murder of the black majority by spreading AIDS7 3 and through the development of pathogens and vaccines7 4 that they are able to selectively assault black people with illness, extinction and infertility.

Dr. Wouter Basson, 75 the project’s top scientist, told Pretoria High Court in South Africa that the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency menaced him with demise, presumably to prevented from uncover the deep the relation between Project Coast and the U.S ., which had forced President F. W. de Klerk to shut down the project and completely destroyed records.

Basson reputation the U.S. Core for Disease Control as his source of eight shipments7 6 of Ebola, Marburg and Rift Valley viruses, but claimed that he had obtained the viruses by posing as a medical researcher and concealing his affiliation with the South African Defense Forces.

Surveys of at-bats in South africans attained no evidence7 7 of bats being natural carriers of Rift Valley Fever virus, but experiments have shown that bats can be infected7 8 with it in a laboratory setting.

A bat coronavirus collected7 9 in South africans in 2011 was thought to be the closest known relative of the MERS-CoV virus that emerged in Saudi Arabia in 2012, until a 100 -percent match for MERS-CoV was detected by Daszak and his colleagues in viral RNA scraps from an Egyptian crypt bat8 0 spotted near the dwelling of one of the first MERS martyrs in Saudi Arabia.

* Liberia — In Liberia, which didn’t ratify the Biological Weapons Convention until 2016,81 EcoHealth Alliance has a $4.91 -million8 2 Pentagon contract, 83 “Reducing the Threat from High-risk Pathogens Causing Febrile Illness in Liberia.” Febrile healths include Ebola, which has been the subject of some of “the worlds largest” controversial dual-use research. 84

While the U.S. has a sordid biography of biological weapons experimentation on its own beings — with conscientious objectors, 85 military “volunteers, “8 6 and the general public8 7 as frequent subjects — there were some biological weapons tests8 8 the Department of Defense considered too unethical to perform within the continental U.S. Those evaluations were conducted in other countries, including Liberia. 89

Likewise, reflecting medical experimentation9 0 on African Americans, there is a history of colonial medical experimentation in Liberia going back to 1926 when the Firestone9 1 tire busines financed cross-examines of local ailments they feared could abridge the profitability of their rubber plantations.

More recently, a flunked Pentagon-funded Ebola drug trial9 2 began numerous Liberians to is hypothesized that the precede Ebola outbreak was the faulting of Tekmira, the pharmaceutical busines that developed TKM-1 00802. Doubt encircled the official story, promoted9 3 by Daszak, that the West African Ebola outbreak happened because bats flew in with the Ebola Zaire virus from 2,500 miles away.

In January 2014, the Phase I trial9 4 for TKM-1 00802 was launched, but put one across clinical impound by the U.S. Food& Drug Administration due to high cytokine exhaust in participants. In a dose-escalation, healthy volunteer study, one( of two) participates dosed at the highest standards of 0* 5 mg/ kg suffered cytokine handout syndrome. 95

Cytokine release syndrome9 6 is a pro-inflammatory reaction that occurs when activated lymphocytes and/ or myeloid cells freeing soluble immune arbiters following administration of sure-fire therapeutic agents, extremely monoclonal antibodies. Onset can be rapid( within hours of administration) and can be life-threatening.

Ultimately, TKM-1 00802 proved useless9 7 for Ebola patients, but the Pentagon’s $140 -million9 8 speculation, and the boost9 9 Tekmira’s stock experienced on speculation that Ebola would soon spawn the next$ 1-billion dose, 100 compiled numerous investors rich.

Suspicions were raised because the TKM-1 00802 Phase I tribulation on health voluntaries started in january 2014, before1 01 the first cases of the Ebola outbreak in March 2014.

Later, the World Health Organization’s Pierre Formenty traced the first case1 02 back to late December 2013, in Meliandou, Guinea. There, 50 rhythms from the residence of patient zero, another researcher, Fabian Leendertz, 103 learnt DNA fragments that joined the Angolan free-tailed bat, a genu known to survive experimental illness with Ebola.

Then, Daszak’s EcoHealth team saw viral RNA fragments1 04 of Ebola Zaire in a greater long-fingered bat, caught up in 2016 in Liberia’s Sanniquellie-Mahn District, which borderlines Guinea. There was a 1982 article1 05 in Annals of Virology in which a trio of Germans reported feeling Ebola antibodies in 26 of 433 Liberians( 6 %). Bats aren’t the only place to look for Ebola.

There’s a BSL-4 lab that was manage Zaire Ebola before the pandemic in Kenema, Sierra Leone. This is where international law advocate Francis Boyle, 106 a drafter of the U.S. Biological Weapons and Anti-Terrorism Act guided into rule in 1981, feels the pandemic originated.

There’s also Liberia’s Monkey Island. As the Washington Post reported, 107 that’s where 66 chimps have been since 2004, when they were abandoned by the American scientists at the Liberian labs of the New York Blood Center. From 1974 to 2004, the New York Blood Center captured mad chimps, employed them in medical experimentation and then released them back into the jungle in a projection known as Vilab II108( Virology Lab II ), which maintains a settlement of 200 chimps.

Vilab II was constructed from the fragments of the Liberian Institute of Tropical Medicine. Built by Firestone in 1946, the Liberian Institute of Tropical Medicine has since exerted 60 scientists, but by 1974, medical doctor Earl Reber1 09 was there alone with eight chimps. The beginnings of the Liberian Institute of Tropical Medicine go back to the research begun in 1926 by Harvard Department of Tropical Medicine chief Richard Pearson Strong.

Virus hunters like Daszak should have a keen interest in a population of chimps that, for nearly 100 years, has get caught, injected with viruses and then liberated back into the wild, peculiarly considering the work of the researchers who administered the chimps.

The New York Blood Center is at the centres of a theory1 10 on the beginning of HIV/ AIDS, that it came from a contaminated Hepatitis B vaccine the center should be allocated to lesbian males from 1978 -1 981. The New York Blood Center too tested1 11 its inoculation on Liberians.

Richard Pearson Strong1 12 is infamous for killing 13 husbands where reference is polluted groupings of 24 prisoners of Manila’s Bilibid Prison with plague through a contaminated cholera inoculation. That was prior to his work1 13 in Liberia, which is only now being explored, and also involved experiments with humans as well as chimpanzees.

* Georgia — EcoHealth Alliance has a $6.5 -million Pentagon grant1 14 for “Understanding the Risk of Bat-borne Zoonotic Disease Emergence In Western Asia”( 2017 -2 022 ).

Arms Watch1 15 reports that this grant involves genetic studies on coronaviruses in 5,000 bats collected in Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Turkey and Jordan. The studies is to be carried out at the Lugar Center, a $161 -million Pentagon-funded biolaboratory in Georgia’s asset, Tbilisi. Russia claims1 16 the Georgia lab is the site of a U.S. biological weapons curriculum.

According to USASpending.gov, 117 EcoHealth Alliance have already received $2.88 million in gifts for work in Georgia. The Lugar Center is one of the laboratories that hosts EcoHealth Alliance’s Western Asia Bat Research Network. 118

* Malaysia — In Malaysia, which is only now in the process of creating a legislative framework1 19 for the purpose of implementing the Biological Weapons Convention, EcoHealth Alliance had a $1.6 -million Pentagon grant1 20( 2017 -2 019) for “Serological Biosurveillance for Spillover of Henipaviruses and Filoviruses at Agricultural and Hunting Human Animal Interfaces in Peninsular Malaysia.”

There are no known cases of filovirus infections in humen in Malaysia. But Malaysia is the origin of the Nipah virus, 121 first acknowledged in 1999, during an eruption among farmers and farmworkers in factory farms and slaughterhouses developing pork.

The virus spread to Singapore. In all, there were 265 cases of acute encephalitis with 105 deaths, and the billion-dollar pig-farming industry virtually collapsed. No brand-new eruptions have been reported in Malaysia since 1999.

Nipah virus, a zoonotic pathogen for which no therapies exist, is the inspiration for the film “Contagion.”1 22 The virus can only be experimented on in BSL-4 laboratories. The National Bio and Agro-Defence Facility in Kansas will be the first biocontainment facility1 23 in the U.S. where research on Nipah and Ebola( a filovirus) can be conducted on sheep.

In 2019, Nipah Malaysia was amongst the deadly virus tightens shipped1 24 from Canada’s National Microbiology Lab to the WIV. Henipaviruses, 125 in the paramyxovirus pedigree, were the first emerging illness linked to bats.

In June 2012, in the same Chinese cave1 26( actually an aged copper excavation where craftsmen doing cleanup had become sick and died) in which Daszak’s WIV colleagues obtained SARS-CoV-2’s most closely related coronavirus, another frequent traitor of Daszak’s, Zhiqiang Wu of the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, known a new henipavirus-like pathogen in a rat, referring it the “Mojiang paramyxovirus, “1 27 after the district in Yunnan province where it was found.

Malaysia was the planned site of a BSL-4 laboratory run by the pharmaceutical firm Emergent Biosolutions1 28 for the production processes a halal explanation of the BioThrax vaccine. But that projection failed. 129

In addition to the Pentagon funding, Dazsak find $1.7 million in grants1 30( 2002 -2 005) from NIH’s Fogarty International Center for “Anthropogenic Change& Emerging Zoonotic Paramyxoviruses.” In 2012 -2 014, Daszak had a $569,700 award from the National Fish and Wildlife Service for “Development of a Great Ape Health Unit in Sabah, Malaysia.”

Daszak has a brand-new National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases grant, 131 “Understanding Risk of Zoonotic Virus Emergence in EID Hotspots of Southeast Asia, ” for $1.5 million( 2020 ). The concession is for an “Emerging Infectious Diseases – South East Asia Research Collaboration Hub( EID-SEARCH) ” that “brings chairwomen in rising canker study from the U.S ., Thailand, Singapore and the three major Malaysian administrative neighborhoods together to build an early warning system to safeguard against pandemic cancer menaces. This team will recognize novel viruses from Southeast Asian wildlife[ and] mark their capability to foul and cause illness in people … “

Other Pentagon Contracts

EcoHealth Alliance had a$ 1-million Pentagon contract1 32( 2017 -2 019) for an Inbound Bio-event Information System( IBIS ), “a web-based its implementation and early warning system for global contagious diseases bio-events that threaten the U.S. via international transportation networks.”

EcoHealth Alliance also had another $4.5 -million Pentagon contract( HDTRA1 15 C0041133) for 2015 -2 017. No other knowledge is available on this contract other than that it is for “Applied Research/ Exploratory Development” in the “Physical, Engineering, and Life Science( except Biotechnology ). “

* Department of Homeland Security Contracts — EcoHealth Alliance has a $566,300 contract( 2019 -2 021) with the Department of Homeland Security for the Rapid Evaluation of Pathogens to Prevent Epidemics in Livestock( REPEL) project1 34 “to apply biological-based, pathogen agnostic medical countermeasure vaccine and diagnostic programmes to develop foreign animal and rising zoonotic cattle canker vaccines.”

* Department of Health and Human Work Funding — Daszak find a $300,000 -grant1 35 in 2012 from NIH’s Fogarty International Center for investigate on “Comparative Spillover Dynamics of Avian Influenza In Endemic Countries.” While most of the research listed in the “results” section of the gift are flu-related, the committee is also including the WIV’s newspaper, 136 “Isolation and Characterization of a Bat SARS-like Coronavirus that Consumes the ACE2 Receptor.”1 37

Daszak was given $ 3.7 million in grants1 38( 2002 -2 012) from NIH’s Fogarty International Center for “The Ecology, Emergence And Pandemic Potential of Nipah Virus in Bangladesh.”

The awards Daszak be applicable to support the activities of the WIV were a $3.7 -million grant1 39( 2014 -2 020) “Understanding the Risk of Bat Coronavirus Emergence, ” and a $2.6 -million grant1 40( 2008 -2 012) “Risk of Viral Emergence From Bats, ” each from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.

* U.S. Agency for International Development( USAID) Funding

In Thailand, EcoHealth Alliance has a $647,200 -grant1 41 for “One Health Workforce – Next Generation”( 2019 -2 020 ).

Alexis Baden-Mayer is political director for the Organic Consumers Association( OCA ). www.organicconsumers.org To keep working with OCA’s news and notifies, sign up here.

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