Here we go again!
According to a report, a potentially deadly new COVID-19 strain has been created in a University lab in London.
Seriously?
We already had mad scientists create a new COVID-19 strain at Boston University.
Researchers across the pond apparently want a piece of the gain-of-function action.
It's sickening!
The Daily Mail reports that researchers at Imperial College London have hybridized the original Wuhan strain of the disease with both the Omicron or Delta variants separately.
Researchers infected hamsters with the mutant viruses.
Critics of the dangerous experiments called it 'insanity.'
Twenty scientists were involved in the project, including one who sits on Government advisory panel SAGE.
However, the university insists its research, partly funded by taxpayers, follows UK regulations and is entirely safe.
The past three years say otherwise!
A potentially deadly new strain of COVID has been created in a University lab in London, according to a report.https://t.co/AfaUIvHYL6
— Paul Joseph Watson (@PrisonPlanet) October 31, 2022
A dangerous new Covid strain has been created by researchers at the Imperial College Londonhttps://t.co/d9AZPl6YXy
— The Post Millennial (@TPostMillennial) October 31, 2022
From Daily Mail:
British scientists intentionally created hybrid Covid strains in risky experiments judged to be like 'playing with fire', MailOnline can reveal.
Hamsters were infected with mutant viruses, blends of the original Wuhan strain and parts of either Omicron or Delta.
Critics of the research, carried out by Imperial College London, called it 'insanity' and warned the lab trials could, in theory, unleash a new viral threat. Twenty scientists were involved in the project, including one who sits on the Government's advisory panel SAGE.
But the university insists the study, part-funded by the taxpayer, followed British regulations and was entirely safe.
Our revelation comes amid ongoing furore over similar experiments in the US, where authorities have proposed a crackdown on virus manipulation research.
Earlier this month, DailyMail.com, MailOnline's US equivalent, revealed academics at Boston University combined different parts of the Omicron and the original Wuhan Covid strains.
Critics say this combined the higher lethality of the ancestral SARS-CoV-2 version, which triggered the pandemic in early 2020, with the extreme transmissibility of the milder Omicron strain. Omicron is said to be just contagious as measles, although the claim is disputed.
The hybrid virus they created killed 80 per cent of infected mice.
Boston University defended its research, saying it proved less lethal than the Wuhan type on its own.
It vehemently denied the experiments could be considered 'gain of function', a controversial field of science that sees virologists intentionally manipulate pathogens to make them more infectious or deadly to prepare for future pandemics — allowing them to develop vaccines and therapies in case diseases naturally evolve to become more dangerous.
*Photo from Daily Mail*
Molecular biology expert Dr. Richard Ebright said that the new mutant strain “is insanity, both in terms of the redundancy and waste,” and that it has zero “foreseeable practical applications.”
At least four labs on two continents now have constructed non-natural, lab-generated viruses that retain the high immune escape of Omicron and acquire higher severity than Omicron and that, as such, are reasonably expected to increase transmission or pathogenicity in humans. https://t.co/jKeDXXNY2G
— Richard H. Ebright (@R_H_Ebright) October 28, 2022
This is insanity. Both In terms of the redundancy and waste. And, especially, in terms of the risk of triggering a new pandemic wave upon accidental release of the lab-generated viruses--a risk exacerbated by the fact the lab-generated viruses are present in multiple locations.
— Richard H. Ebright (@R_H_Ebright) October 28, 2022
If the world wishes to avoid new new pandemics caused by lab-generated pathogens, then it is urgently necessary to restrict high-risk, low-benefit research that creates enhanced potential pandemic pathogens and to implement effective national oversight with force of law."
— Richard H. Ebright (@R_H_Ebright) October 28, 2022
"[T]here is no justification for intentionally making potential pandemic viruses more transmissible. The consequences of an accident could be too horrific, and such engineered viruses are not needed for vaccines."
A Plea for Making Virus Research Safer https://t.co/orioZLXQm8
— Richard H. Ebright (@R_H_Ebright) October 30, 2022
Summit News added:
A former director of the Israeli Government’s Institute for Biological Research, Professor Shmuel Shapira, described the research as “playing with fire.”
This should be totally forbbiden, Its playing with fire.
Boston University CREATES new Covid strain that has an 80% kill rate https://t.co/4zSmwcsjmi— Prof Shmuel C. Shapira MD MPH (@shmuelcshapira) October 17, 2022
Last week, a new interim report released by the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions concluded that the origins of Covid-19 more likely than not came from a “research-related incident,” rather than “natural zoonotic spillover.”
“While precedent of previous outbreaks of human infections from contact with animals favors the hypothesis that a natural zoonotic spillover is responsible for the origin of SARS-CoV-2, the emergence of SARS-CoV-2 that resulted in the COVID-19 pandemic was most likely the result of a research-related incident,” the report states, while conceding that “This conclusion is not intended to be dispositive.”
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