Details of a Deadly Pathogen Shipment to Wuhan Lab From Canada Unveiled by Media

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While Canadian officials reportedly explained that the shipments of the Ebola and Henipeh viruses to China were not related to the coronavirus outbreak, one epidemiologist described the development as "alarming".

 

A shipment of Ebola and Henipah viruses was sent from the National Microbiology Lab Winnipeg, Canada to the Wuhan Institute of Virology early in 2019, way before the global coronavirus crisis erupted, CBC News reports.

 

The media outlet also noted that "one of the scientists escorted from the lab in Winnipeg amid an RCMP investigation last July" was apparently responsible for exporting the pathogens, adding that Dr. Xiangguo Qiu, her husband Keding Cheng and her students from China got removed from Canada's “only level-4 lab” over a possible "security breach".

 

Canadian officials insisted that the shipment was not related to the COVID-19 outbreak or the research related to the pandemic.

 

"The administrative investigation is not related to the shipment of virus samples to China," stated Eric Morrissette, chief of media relations for Health Canada and the Public Health Agency of Canada. "In response to a request from the Wuhan Institute of Virology for viral samples of Ebola and Henipah viruses, the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) sent samples for the purpose of scientific research in 2019."

 

However, a law professor and epidemiologist at the University of Ottawa named Amir Attaran, called this development “alarming” and even "potentially life-threatening".

 

"We have a researcher who was removed by the RCMP from the highest security laboratory that Canada has for reasons that government is unwilling to disclose. The intelligence remains secret", he mused. "But what we know is that before she was removed, she sent one of the deadliest viruses on Earth, and multiple varieties of it to maximize the genetic diversity and maximize what experimenters in China could do with it, to a laboratory in China that does dangerous gain of function experiments. And that has links to the Chinese military."

 

With the media outlet describing gain of function experiments as involving a natural pathogen being "taken into the lab, made to mutate, and then assessed to see if it has become more deadly or infectious", Attaran remarked that most countries refrain from performing such experiments due to them being considered too dangerous.

 

"The Wuhan lab does them and we have now supplied them with Ebola and Nipah viruses. It does not take a genius to understand that this is an unwise decision," he said. "I am extremely unhappy to see that the Canadian government shared that genetic material."

 

China became the first country in the world to face the coronavirus crisis as the COVID-19 outbreak was first reported in the country's province of Hubei.

 

In recent months, Beijing has repeatedly been accused by Washington of withholding information about the epidemic during its early stages, blaming it for the spread of the disease – accusations that China vehemently denies.

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cbc.ca

[humble3d]

Yes, 'It is alarming' that Frankenstein doctors are playing with hundreds

of lethal bugs which can wipe out all life on Earth...

[SB7]

I can see Drs playing with current pathogens .. to be prepared / vaccine .. but trying  to make them even more virulent is another matter entirely ..  and there are reportedly only few labs in the world doing that  .. one just happens to be in ......  

Whats more disturbing is that we willingly gave them the worst of the worst,  ( highly contagious with a 90% death rate etc)  ..  and almost shipped it in completely inadequate packaging ..

If you look at the list of pathogens .... that's a truly scary thought

One wonders how often we dodge these potential "events" .... 

[Marcus Thunder]

Forget about vaccines & covid drugs... I think scientists should be dsigning robots connected to the grid & dispatched out on the streets to do work. We are not going out of home any time soon, or may be we are going to look like robots having to wear full body masks.

[tennis]

Seems as though the issue is limited to the action of a single individual.  Or, so it appears.  So, not to worry, I guess?  There is a saying, "A chain is only as strong as it's weakest link".  Apparently this chain, holding the security of the National Microbiology Lab Winnipeg, Canada had at least one weak link.  That weak link was removed and replaced.  Are there additional weak links at the lab? When dealing with such deadly pathogens, how is it possible that lab safeguards and procedures would allow for such a single failure, or breach, to occur? Terrible.