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Wuhan scientists planned to release coronavirus particles into cave bats, leaked papers reveal
Documents reveal researchers applied for $14m to fund controversial project in 2018
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/20...lanned-releaseskin-penetrating-nanoparticles/
https://drasticresearch.org/
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US and Wuhan scientists sought DARPA funding in 2018 to modify bat coronaviruses that would easily infect humans.
Papers, confirmed as genuine by a former member of the Trump administration, show they were hoping to introduce “human-specific cleavage sites” to bat coronaviruses which would make it easier for the virus to enter human cells.
When Covid-19 was first genetically sequenced, scientists were puzzled about how the virus had evolved such a human-specific adaptation at the cleavage site on the spike protein, which is the reason it is so infectious.
- The American and Wuhan scientists intended to release the genetically modified virus into caves in Yunnan Province China.
- DARPA refused to fund the program stating there was a real danger of the virus escaping into the local population.
- This trove of documents was released by DRASTIC.
The documents were released by Drastic, the web-based investigations team set up by scientists from across the world to look into the origins of Covid-19.
- Daszak and Co. also stated in the funding proposal :
The proposal also included plans to mix high-risk natural coronavirus strains with more infectious but less dangerous varieties.
- Did the proposed attempt to make bat coronavirus especially pathogenic to humans go ahead?
Angus Dalgleish, Professor of Oncology at St Georges, University of London, who struggled to get work published showing that the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) had been carrying out “gain of function” work for years before the pandemic, said the research may have gone ahead even without the funding.
“This is clearly a gain of function, engineering the cleavage site and polishing the new viruses to enhance human cell infectibility in more than one cell line,” he said
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- And you know what is worse ? Daszak and Co. wanted to genetically modify the far far more deadly MERS virus, which has a fatality rate over 30%. Sars-Cov-2 pales in comparison to MERS for death rate.
“Peter Daszak and the EcoHealth Alliance (EHA) proposed injecting deadly chimeric bat coronaviruses collected by the Wuhan Institute of Virology into humanised and ‘batified’ mice, and much, much more.”
A Covid-19 researcher from the World Health Organisation (WHO), who wished to remain anonymous, said it was alarming that the grant proposal included plans to enhance the more deadly disease of Middle-East Respiratory Syndrome (Mers).
“The scary part is they were making infectious chimeric Mers viruses,” the source said.
“These viruses have a fatality rate over 30 per cent, which is at least an order of magnitude more deadly than Sars-CoV-2.
“If one of their receptor replacements made Mers spread similarly, while maintaining its lethality, this pandemic would be nearly apocalyptic.”