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2020-03-18 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
6 Aug 2019 Article - CDC Shuts Down Army Lab's Disease Research
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Posted by Besoeker 2020-03-18 01:54|| || Front Page|| [11133 views ]  Top

#1 Perhaps this needs looking into.
Posted by Besoeker 2020-03-18 02:00||   2020-03-18 02:00|| Front Page Top

#2 How much would you bet, Mr. B, that we will learn in coming weeks that a researcher from said facility was a Chinese national, on loan from a US university as part of a postdoctoral or other educational visa program?
Posted by Lex 2020-03-18 02:18||   2020-03-18 02:18|| Front Page Top

#3 ...or a member of the subcontracted janitorial/custodial teams?
Posted by Procopius2k 2020-03-18 06:56||   2020-03-18 06:56|| Front Page Top

#4 Inside the Hot Zone: A Soldier on the Front Lines of Biological Warfare, by Dr. Mark G. Kortepeter

“But I felt like I wanted to show a different side of the story, how some of the folks at USAMRIID felt about it,” Kortepeter said. “And really to demonstrate a little bit about the devastation that had on the, on the institute as a whole, not just to Dr. Ivins, and allow some of my colleagues who work with them to have a bit of a voice that they really weren’t able to have, because they were under gag orders by the FBI.”
Posted by Besoeker 2020-03-18 07:16||   2020-03-18 07:16|| Front Page Top

#5 Link to 13 Feb 2020 Frederick News-Post back story of #4 found here.
Posted by Besoeker 2020-03-18 07:20||   2020-03-18 07:20|| Front Page Top

#6 CBW Magazine, July-Dec 2019, China's Biological Warfare Programme and the Curious Case of Dr. Xiangguo Qiu

Excerpt: At any rate, the controversial shipment brought about the entering of information technology specialists into Qiu's office after hours, for her computer. Consequent to the incident, security access for Dr. Qiu, her husband and the Chinese students was revoked. Her regular trips to China also started being denied.16 Notably, Dr. Qiu made at least five trips over the school year 2017-18 to the above mentioned Wuhan National Biosafety Laboratory of the Chinese Academy of Sciences,17 which was certified for BSL4 in January 2017. Moreover, in August 2017, the National Health Commission of China approved research activities involving Ebola, Nipah, and Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever viruses at the Wuhan facility, and in March 2019, the Chinese published their tour de force.18

Jens Stoltenberg, the secretary-general of NATO, said at a news conference he couldn't comment on this specific case but appeared to suggest the possibility of espionage. "What I can say in general is that we have seen increased efforts by the nations to spy on NATO allies in different ways," he noted.19 Connectedly or not, Dr. Qiu collaborated in 2018 with three scientists from the US Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases, Maryland, studying post-exposure immunotherapy for two Ebola viruses and Marburg virus in monkeys; a study supported by the US Defense Threat Reduction Agency.20
Posted by Besoeker 2020-03-18 07:53||   2020-03-18 07:53|| Front Page Top

#7 My emphasis added at #6 above.

USAMRIID has been in operation for over a half-century. Seems curious it would be completely shut down over "safety lapses" which could have potentially been corrected on-the-spot or contained via isolation.
Posted by Besoeker 2020-03-18 08:03||   2020-03-18 08:03|| Front Page Top

#8 TRANSCRIPT: 5 Feb 2020, Bioweapons Expert Dr. Francis Boyle On Coronavirus.

Appears Dr. Boyle has little or no use for the CDC, WHO, virtue signalling Bill and Melinda, or the concept of viral bats.
Posted by Besoeker 2020-03-18 08:16||   2020-03-18 08:16|| Front Page Top

#9 Boyle received a Bachelor of Arts in political science from the University of Chicago in 1971.[3] He went on to earn a Juris Doctor from Harvard Law School in 1976 and Master of Arts and Doctor of Philosophy in political science from Harvard University in 1983.[3] Boyle practiced tax and international tax law with Bingham, Dana & Gould.[2]
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-03-18 08:29||   2020-03-18 08:29|| Front Page Top

#10 Thought Ft. Detrick got disestablished/decommissioned back in 1969 under Nixon.
Posted by JohnQC 2020-03-18 09:59||   2020-03-18 09:59|| Front Page Top

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