US researchers found ‘serious safety concerns’ at Wuhan’s coronavirus lab in 2017 three years BEFORE pandemic – but were censored to shield China from criticism, shock new documents show

US researchers found ‘serious safety concerns’ at Wuhan’s coronavirus lab in 2017 three years BEFORE pandemic – but were censored to shield China from criticism, shock new documents show

Warnings from US researchers about genetically engineered viruses at China‘s bat lab were raised years before the Covid-19 pandemic, but were ignored or censored. Newly obtained records show how an NIH official raised serious concerns about the Wuhan Institute of Virology’s plan to engineer Ebola strains in 2017. The lab – where the FBI believes Covid … Read more

Experts reveal which virus is most likely to cause the next pandemic – and where it will come from

Experts reveal which virus is most likely to cause the next pandemic – and where it will come from

The next pandemic could spark from a disease with a 40 percent mortality rate within just two decades, top virologists say — warning Covid could have been just the tip of the pandemic iceberg. DailyMail.com spoke to three virus experts who agreed a respiratory virus — spread via droplets from coughs and sneezes — was … Read more

Chinese scientists discover EIGHT never-before-seen viruses… and now they plan to experiment with them

Chinese scientists discover EIGHT never-before-seen viruses… and now they plan to experiment with them

Chinese scientists have discovered never-before-seen viruses lurking on a tropical island — and warned they could infect humans. Researchers tasked with preparing the world for future pandemic took almost 700 samples from rodents living in Hainan, just off China‘s southern coast. Eight novel viruses — including one belonging to the same family as Covid — … Read more

Britain’s secret biosecurity blunders revealed – including LOSING a genetically-modified mouse and an experiment gone wrong involving a smallpox-like virus

Britain’s secret biosecurity blunders revealed – including LOSING a genetically-modified mouse and an experiment gone wrong involving a smallpox-like virus

British researchers lost a genetically modified mouse and accidentally released a smallpox-like pathogen in a string of biosecurity blunders kept under wraps. MailOnline has learned of six lab incidents where genetically modified organisms (GMO) have escaped containment in the past five years.  Four occurred before Covid swept the globe, according to our Freedom of Information … Read more

US health officials monitor 27 people for Ebola amid fears they contracted it in West Africa

Four people in Oregon and 23 in Washington are being monitored for the Ebola virus after returning to the US from West Africa, the Oregon Health Authority said on Thursday. The individuals had returned from Guinea and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where small outbreaks of Ebola have been recorded.  The state health authority said … Read more

Inside Porton Down: Scientists working in Britain’s secretive lab admit to Covid -19 ‘trepidation’

Scientists who handle some of the most deadly substances in the world have described the ‘trepidation’ they felt when starting to research coronavirus. The Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (DSTL) at the secretive Porton Down, near Salisbury, has been helping in the fight against the disease ever since the pandemic began. Founded in 1916, the … Read more

Charles Kenny details a history of mankind’s battles with infectious disease

Vaccines? The Chinese got there first… Charles Kenny details a history of mankind’s battles with infectious disease Infectious disease has always been with us and arguably always will be  Charles Kenny’s book is a lively survey of our millennia-long struggle to defeat it  He looks back at the plagues that have gone before including the Black … Read more

Congo suffers its fourth Ebola outbreak in three years

Congo has been hit with a new Ebola outbreak, the fourth in less than three years, after the country quashed the last wave in November. Health officials in the Democratic Republic of Congo confirmed another Ebola outbreak in the country’s east on Sunday after a woman died in Butembo town of North Kivu province last … Read more

Climate change ‘may have driven emergence of coronavirus’

Climate change may have driven the emergence of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes Covid-19, a new study claims. UK researchers say global greenhouse gas emissions over the last century have driven growth of forest habitat favoured by bats.  This has made southern China, in particular the Chinese Yunnan province, a ‘global hotspot’ for bat-borne coronaviruses like SARS-CoV-2.  … Read more

Convalescent plasma does NOT work: Doctors pause trial of drug because no proof it works

Convalescent plasma has been used to treat infections for at least a century, dating back to the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic.   It was also trialed during the 2009-2010 H1N1 influenza virus pandemic, 2003 SARS epidemic, and the 2012 MERS epidemic.  Convalescent plasma was used as a last resort to improve the survival rate of patients … Read more