The Biolab in Fresno
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Er, the Chinese Biolab in Fresno:
Local and federal authorities spent months investigating a warehouse in Fresno County, California, that they suspect was home to an illegal, unlicensed laboratory full of lab mice, medical waste and hazardous materials.
The Fresno County Public Health Department has been "evaluating and assessing the activities of an unlicensed laboratory" in Reedley, the health department's assistant director, Joe Prado, said in a statement Thursday.
"Certain rooms of the warehouse were found to contain several vessels of liquid and various apparatus," court documents said. "Fresno County Public Health staff also observed blood, tissue and other bodily fluid samples and serums; and thousands of vials of unlabeled fluids and suspected biological material."
Hundreds of mice at the warehouse were kept in inhumane conditions, court documents said. The city took possession of the animals in April, euthanizing 773 of them; more than 175 were found dead.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention tested the substances and detected at least 20 potentially infectious agents, including coronavirus, HIV, hepatitis and herpes, according to a Health and Human Services letter dated June 6.
An investigation found the tenant was Prestige BioTech, a company registered in Nevada and unlicensed for business in California. City officials spoke with Xiuquin Yao, who was identified as the company president, through emails included in the court documents.
Officials were unable to get any California-based address for either company except for the previous Fresno location from which UMI had been evicted.
"The other addresses provided for identified authorized agents were either empty offices or addresses in China that could not be verified," court documents said.
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DOJ Charges Chinese National Who Operated Illegal Bio Lab
Jia Bei Zhu, a Chinese national, was charged Thursday with crimes related to an undercover bio-lab he was operating in California, which was found to contain a host of dangerous pathogens, including Covid-19.
Zhu worked out of an unlicensed lab in Reedley, Calif. owned by Prestige Biotech Inc., a successor to a defunct Chinese biotech firm.
“There was a special room that was built housing about 1,000 white lab mice,” a city manager, Nicole Zieba, told a local news outlet following the initial discovery. “This is an unusual situation. I’ve been in government for 25 years. I’ve never seen anything like this,” she added. According to the official, at least 200 mice were found dead. The remainder were euthanized by the county.
Prestige Biotech was the largest creditor of the now-defunct company, Universal Meditech, and took control of it following bankruptcy. The Chinese-run company did not have a license to operate in California. Wang Zhaolin, a spokesman for Prestige Biotech, told the San Joaquin Valley Sun following the revelation that the mice “were genetically engineered to catch and carry the Covid-19 virus.”
Court documents further showed that the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) conducted tests on the more than 800 chemicals found at the site and that over 20 infectious agents were found present, including Hepatitis B and C, streptococcus pneumonia, chlamydia, rubella, and Herpes 1 and 5. “Certain rooms of the warehouse were found to contain several vessels of liquid and various apparatus,” the document reads. “Fresno County Public Health staff also observed blood, tissue and other bodily fluid samples and serums; and thousands of vials of unlabeled fluids and suspected biological material.”
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Maybe something escaped and that’s what happened to Californians? Something that effects cognitive function…
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I don't think the Chinese are that smart. Maybe that ruthless...
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HIV is not a big deal.
Ebola? Somebody needs to go to jail.
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The House panel found that “with the exception of Ebola,” the labeled vials of presumed pathogens found at the Greeley biolab are “inconsistent with the operation of a bioweapons program.”
Kind of a big exception
So the Chinese have deadly bioweapons in California.
The Feds (CDC) are reluctant to get involved.
The FBI
closed its investigation because the Bureau believed that there were no weapons of mass destruction on the property.”
So, the current status is
“the public health risks posed by the lab are unknown and, at this point, unknowable.”
“It is therefore incumbent upon Congress and the Executive Branch to address these vulnerabilities now before it is too late.”
Good idea
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The lab contained deadlier pathogens (e.g., Ebola) than the original press accounts suggested. The lab was run by a Chinese man named Jesse Zhu, and was paid millions of dollars by the Peoples Republic of China (PRC) while experiments were being conducted at the Reedley facility
- The illegal biolab was run by a PRC citizen who is a wanted fugitive from Canada with a $330 million Canadian dollar judgment against him for stealing American intellectual property.
- This PRC citizen was a top official at a PRC-state-controlled company and had links to military-civil fusion entities.
- The illegal biolab received millions of dollars in unexplained payments from PRC banks while running the illegal biolab.
- The illegal biolab contained thousands of samples of labeled, unlabeled, and encoded potential pathogens, including HIV, malaria, tuberculosis, and Covid.
- The illegal biolab also contained a freezer labeled “Ebola,” which contained unlabeled, sealed silver bags consistent with how the lab stored high risk biological materials. Ebola is a Select Agent with a lethality rate between 25-90%.
- The biolab contained nearly a thousand transgenic mice, genetically engineered to mimic the human immune system. Lab workers said that the mice were designed “to catch and carry the COVID-19 virus.”
- After local officials who discovered the lab sought help from the CDC and others, the CDC refused to test any of the samples.
One of the members of the select committee, Rep. Ashley Hinson (R-IA), slammed the FBI and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) for their lack of interest in this case, saying Select Committee’s final report, “reads like a movie script and a horror movie script, when you detail all of those things that were missed”.
- Hinson, like others, is concerned that more could be hidden across the U.S., posing a threat to national security.
- “The FBI and the CDC really dropped the ball here in terms of investigating not only this illegal lab, but now we wonder how many more labs like this exist in the country,” she said.
- “So clearly, we have some work to do to make sure we’re prepared, because we know China is doing everything they can to constantly undermine us.”
- The House Select Committee on the PRC further claimed that both the FBI and the CDC were contacted by local law enforcement, but the agencies declined to investigate.
The report notes that FBI informed the local investigator that it had closed its investigation because the Bureau believed that there were no weapons of mass destruction on the property (despite a vial clearly marked “Ebola”.) However, The Select Committee’s assessment of the CDC is especially damning.
- The CDC’s response was inadequate and raises serious questions about its standard practices. It is unacceptable that the CDC, according to accounts of local officials, refused to take a phone call from city and county officials concerned about a biolab found in their region.
- …The CDC’s continuing refusal to test pathogens despite reasonable requests and the offer to pay from local officials facing a concerned populace simply does not make sense.
- …The CDC’s insisted that there was “no evidence” that Select Agents were within Reedley Biolab or that Zhu and UMI imported infectious agents and “insufficient evidence at this time” of legal violations. It seems to have made this claim without conducting any investigation beyond reading the labels that were in English on a limited number of the pathogenic samples.
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Sorry, but the FBI has limited resources, and there are parents at school board meetings demanding teachers not be allowed to socially transition their kids. That obviously has to take priority.
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More:
https://thesovereignmind.substack.com/p/house-of-horrors-an-exclusive-in
This crazy story got even crazier when the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said there was no sign the lab was illegally in possession of the materials or had select agents or toxins that could be used as bioweapons. “CDC has taken no further action in this matter,” the agency said in an email to The Associated Press, referring further questions to county and state officials. (Apparently the CDC deems it completely legal for illegal labs operating without building permits, licenses or laboratory certification to dump toxic biohazard waste into regular waste bins and to experiment on highly infectious bacteria and viruses that can be transformed bioweapons. Who knew?)
The Select Committee on Strategic Competition between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party published its investigative report on this most peculiar affair on Nov 15, 2023. According to this report, not only did the lab have specimens of infectious agents, but there were bags labeled "MDMA," “cocaine,” “methamphetamine,” and “THC..."
This report claims local officials spent months repeatedly trying to obtain assistance from the CDC and on a number of occasions the CDC hung up on them mid-conversation. Ultimately, local officials contacted their local Member of Congress, Representative Jim Costa, who then got the CDC to inspect the Reedley biolab. Here is the complete pathogen list as enumerated by the CDC’s own report. (CDC made this list of based solely on the labels. The CDC did not test these samples to assess whether the listed labels were correct).
When it came time for local officials to start dismantling the Reedley lab, they set about to review every freezer for evidence of potential pathogens that they needed to destroy. While doing so, local officials and contractors reported that they found a freezer labeled “Ebola” with silver sealed bags inside. They wrote to the CDC “when you are going through and looking for select agents, do the containers need to be labeled individually with what is in it to count as one? We are doing the abatement here in Reedley and a fridge [freezer] had a label on it and one of the words in English was Ebola,” while noting that the containers within were not expressly labeled “Ebola.” The CDC official responded by stating, “Yes, we would typically look for the vial to be labeled as Ebola” and noted that they did not recall seeing the Ebola label. He did not cite any CDC policy when making this pronouncement. You’d think the country’s foremost public health agency would’ve leapt to action at the mere possibility of Ebola virus being handled at an illegal unlicensed lab instead of coming up with the harebrained notion that unlabeled bags were unworthy of their consideration.
To add to the depravity of it all, this lab was being massively subsidized, and in effect funded, using California tax credits under the “Go-Biz” program (more on this later)