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2025-07-09 Government Corruption
USAID Quietly Sent Thousands Of Viruses To Chinese Military-Linked Biolab
[Daily Caller] The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) shipped thousands of viral samples to a lab in Wuhan over the course of a 10-year program even though it had no formal agreement with the lab in place, according to previously unreported documents.

The documents show that USAID funded the exportation of 11,000 samples from Yunnan Province, where some of the closest relatives of the COVID-19 virus circulate, to Wuhan, the epicenter of the pandemic, with no apparent plan for ensuring the samples were not misdirected to bioweapons and remained accessible to the U.S. government.

A $210 million USAID public health program called PREDICT, steered by the University of California-Davis, collected viral samples in countries throughout the globe but lacked long-term storage when funding dried up, according to rudimentary plans in 2019.

USAID has been shuttered and employees transferred to DoS. Problem solved.... OH WAIT !
Posted by Besoeker 2025-07-09 12:04|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| ||Comments [66 views ]  Top

#1 .....no apparent plan for ensuring the samples were not misdirected to bioweapons and remained accessible to the U.S. government.

If the samples were actually directed to bio weapons research, the term "misdirected" simply does not apply.

Posted by Besoeker 2025-07-09 12:13||   2025-07-09 12:13|| Front Page || Comments   Top

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