On the eve of the outbreak, WHO experts talk about the details of the Wuhan Institute of Viology's transformation of the novel coronavirus

Reporter : Zheng Gusheng / Editor: Mei Lan / https://www.ntdtv.com/gb/2021/03/01/a103064832.html / Direct translation

Recently, WHO expert Peter Daszak in a video interview on December 9, 2019 was popular. Dasak worked with Shi Zhengli, a researcher at the Wuhan Institute of Virology. In the video, he introduced some details of the Wuhan Institute of Viology's transformation of the novel coronavirus at that time.

Daszak is a pathogen consultant to the World Health Organization and chairman of the EcoHealth Alliance, a non-profit organization in the United States. Recently, the WHO investigation team went to China to investigate the origin of the CCP virus, and he was also a member of the team. From 2014 to 2019, Daszak worked with Shi Zhengli, who has been committed to bat coronavirus research for a long time, to carry out investigation and cataloging of bat coronaviruses across China.

In the above-mentioned interview on the eve of the Wuhan epidemic, Daszak said that when the researchers discovered that SARS was likely to originate from bats, they began to look for more SARS-related coronaviruses and eventually found more than 100 kinds. Among them, some coronaviruses can enter human cells, while others can cause SARS in humanized mouse models. Such coronaviruses "cannot be treated with therapeutic monoclonal antibodies, nor can they be prevented with vaccines."

But Daszak claimed that his team is trying to find the "spillover event" that may lead to the next pandemic, and the goal of the functional enhancement experiment is to develop a "pan-coronavirus vaccine" against multiple coronaviruses.

According to Daszak's account, Wuhan Institute of Virology was manipulating and editing the coronavirus in the laboratory. He talked about "inserting the spike protein into the backbone of another virus."

He also mentioned that Wuhan Virus uses chimeras to perform functional gain experiments, such as trying to insert genes from other related viruses on the basis of the SARS vaccine, in order to "get a better vaccine." These experiments appear to involve infecting humanized mice with chimeras. These mice have been genetically modified to express human ACE2 protein.

The CCP has studied deadly viruses on the grounds of "preventing the epidemic" for many years, but some overseas experts questioned that its real purpose is to develop biological weapons.

In 2015, Daszak mentioned the risks of humanized mouse experiments in a speech entitled "Assessing the Threat of Coronavirus". At the end of the speech, he listed the Wuhan Institute of Virology as a collaborator.

According to a report by the National Public Radio (NPR), the Eco-Health Alliance led by Daszak has injected US$3.7 million in research funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) into the Wuhan Institute of Virology to fund research on bat coronaviruses. 

At the end of December 2019, after the local doctors exposed the relevant news, the Wuhan authorities of the Communist Party of China admitted to the emergence of a "novel coronavirus" epidemic. However, Hong Kong media quoted internal CCP documents as saying that there were cases in Hubei as early as November. According to the investigation report of the US State Department, many employees of Wuhan Institute of Viology developed symptoms of infection in the fall of that year. The report therefore strongly questioned the "laboratory leak."