Nipah Virus

Another virus has emerged from building 666 in Wuhan China . A visiting doctor testified the Chinese were working on the virus during his visit to building 666 in December of 2019 . Now like covid 19 the nipah virus is beginning its spread through the population . Unlike covid 19 however with only about a 1 % mortality rate the new virus has a 75 % mortality rate . So for no known cure for the spreading virus exist .

 

The new virus has about a 45 day incubation period giving it more time to spread from host to host . I suppose the Chinese lab workers were delighted when they also discovered the Nipah virus can readily be spread from ticks to humans .

 

https://www.cdc.gov/vhf/nipah/index.html

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Nipah virus (NiV) is a zoonotic virus, meaning that it can spread between animals and people. Fruit bats, also called flying foxes, are the animal reservoir for NiV in nature. Nipah virus is also known to cause illness in pigs and people. Infection with NiV is associated with encephalitis (swelling of the brain) and can cause mild to severe illness and even death. Outbreaks occur almost annually in parts of Asia, primarily Bangladesh and India.


Nipah virus infection can be prevented by avoiding exposure to sick pigs and bats in areas where the virus is present, and not drinking raw date palm sap which can be contaminated by an infected bat. During an outbreak, standard infection control practices can help prevent person-to-person spread in hospital settings.

Nipah virus (NiV) was first discovered in 1999 following an outbreak of disease in pigs and people in Malaysia and Singapore. This outbreak resulted in nearly 300 human cases and more than 100 deaths, and caused substantial economic impact as more than 1 million pigs were killed to help control the outbreak.


While there have been no other known outbreaks of NiV in Malaysia and Singapore since 1999, outbreaks have been recorded almost annually in some parts of Asia since then—primarily in Bangladesh and India. The virus has been shown to spread from person-to-person in these outbreaks, raising concerns about the potential for NiV to cause a global pandemic.

Infected fruit bats can spread the disease to people or other animals, such as pigs. People can become infected if they have close contact with an infected animal or its body fluids (such as saliva or urine)—this initial spread from an animal to a person is known as a spillover event. Once it spreads to people, person-to-person spread of NiV can also occur.

The symptoms of NiV infection range from mild to severe, with death occurring in 40%–70% of those infected in documented outbreaks between 1998 and 2018.

In the first known NiV outbreak, people were probably infected through close contact with infected pigs. The NiV strain identified in that outbreak appeared to have been transmitted initially from bats to pigs, with subsequent spread within pig populations. Then people who worked closely with infected pigs began falling ill. No person-to-person transmission was reported in that outbreak.

However, person-to-person spread of NiV is regularly reported in Bangladesh and India. This is most commonly seen in the families and caregivers of NiV-infected patients, and in healthcare settings. Transmission also occurs from exposure to food products that have been contaminated by infected animals, including consumption of raw date palm sap or fruit that has been contaminated with saliva or urine from infected bats. Some cases of NiV infection have also been reported among people who climb trees where bats often roost.
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Bats and maybe (?) cats:

"Feral Cats and Risk for Nipah Virus Transmission "

https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/12/7/05-0799_article

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Nipah virus (NiV) emerged in peninsular Malaysia in 1998 and 1999 as a respiratory and neurologic disease of domestic pigs and an acute febrile encephalitic disease in humans (1). Nipah virus infection is associated with a case-fatality ratio of 40% to 76% in humans (1,2). Cats (Felis catus) were infected with NiV at the site of the outbreak in northern Malaysia (3). Experimental studies have shown that cats are susceptible to Hendra virus and NiV (4,5). Infected cats shed NiV through the nasopharynx and in urine while viremic, and 1 (of 2) recovered from experimental NiV infection with a high neutralizing antibody titer (>256) within 21 days (5).

Despite limited contact with bats, residents and visitors to Air Batang have ample opportunity for close contact with feral cats, which are often fed and sometimes housed by residents. Cats have been observed under trees that are occupied by roosting fruit bats in Air Batang. NiV could be transmitted from bats to cats through urine and then among cats oronasally, given their gregarious nature, which frequently includes mutual grooming. Cats are also frequently seen in close contact with humans in restaurants, on the tables, and in food preparation areas, where they are fed. If NiV is also present in bat fetal tissues, cats could become infected through contact with or by eating these tissues after mass births among bats.


We tested feral cats from Air Batang for neutralizing antibodies to NiV to determine whether cats might play a role in the zoonotic transmission of Nipah virus. Fifty bats were captured from Air Batang and tested for NiV and neutralizing antibodies to NiV as part of a long-term NiV surveillance study (A. Rahman, unpub. data).


Thirty-two cats were caught July 12–19, 2004, in a 200-m radius of a bat colony. Cats were anesthetized, and 3.0 mL blood was collected from the jugular vein or medial saphenous vein. Serum was allowed to separate at 4°C for 24 hours and was then further separated and frozen in liquid nitrogen. Serum was tested by serum neutralization test (SNT), which is considered the reference standard for serologic assays, at the Australian Animal Health Laboratory, Geelong, Australia, as described (5,10).


The time of year was similar to the time when NiV was isolated from bats in 2000; however, none of the 32 cats (18 males, 14 females; 25 adults, 7 juveniles [<1 year of age]) had detectable antibodies to NiV on SNT. All cats appeared healthy except for 1 adult that was markedly jaundiced. The period of the study did not overlap the seasonal gestation period of P. hypomelanus, and none of the adult female bats tested (n = 20) were pregnant. Although attempts to isolate virus from bat urine and saliva were unsuccessful (A. Rahman, unpub. data), 7 (14%) of 50 bats, including 1 (8%) of 13 post-weaning juveniles (≈4 months to 2 years of age) had neutralizing antibodies (all >32) to NiV on SNT, which suggests that virus had circulated in the colony since 2000.


Our finding of no seropositive cats may be explained in 3 ways: 1) feral cats are rarely, if at all, exposed to NiV in nature; 2) the death rate from NiV infection in cats is so high that few or none survive with immunity; or 3) our sample size was too small to detect a seropositive cat. We believe that the first hypothesis is most likely. A low incidence of NiV infection in this population of bats (95% confidence interval for 0 of 50 bats, 0.00–0.71), combined with a short viremic period, would make transmission between bats and cats unlikely. However, if transmission occurred, we would expect to find some cats with a detectable titer (5). While the exact age of the cats in this survey was unknown, 25 (78%) of 32 were adults (>1 year of age) and may have been in Air Batang either in 2000, when NiV was isolated from bats, or during a more recent outbreak. We conclude that exposure of feral or peridomestic cats to Nipah virus on Tioman Island is rare and that the risk for zoonotic transmission is low.
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The following article is huge, so I have gone through and chopped out the technical parts and left the parts more salient for general discussion among non-medical folk. Sorry, but to get to the entire article you would have to have medical clearance (passwords and secondary validation comm).

I would love to shake hands with these researchers! They got down to the very minutia of intracellular viral mechanism of contamination / pathophysiology. This was a super-detailed article and these people put in an extraordinary amount of work! Any medical researchers out there interested in this topic, I highly recommend this article.

Veterinary Quarterly, 2019; 39(1): 26–55.

Published online 2019 Apr 22. doi: 10.1080/01652176.2019.1580827

"Nipah virus: epidemiology, pathology, immunobiology and advances in diagnosis, vaccine designing and control strategies – a comprehensive review"

Raj Kumar Singh,a Kuldeep Dhama,b Sandip Chakraborty,c Ruchi Tiwari,d Senthilkumar Natesan,e Rekha Khandia,f Ashok Munjal,f Kranti Suresh Vora,g Shyma K. Latheef,b Kumaragurubaran Karthik,h Yashpal Singh Malik,i Rajendra Singh,b Wanpen Chaicumpa,j and Devendra T. Mouryak

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Nipah virus can survive for up to 3 days in some fruit juices or mango fruit, and for at least 7 days in artificial date palm sap (13% sucrose and 0.21% BSA in water, pH 7.0) kept at 22 °C. The virus has a half-life of 18 h in the urine of fruit bats. NiV is relatively stable in the environment, and remains viable at 70 °C for 1 h (only the viral concentration will be reduced). It can be completely inactivated by heating at 100 °C for more than 15 min (de Wit et al. 2014). However, the viability of the virus in its natural environment may vary depending on the different conditions. NiV can be readily inactivated by soaps, detergents and commercially available disinfectants such as sodium hypochlorite (Hassan et al. 2018).

Bats serve as reservoir hosts for several high risk pathogens, including Nipah, rabies and Marbug viruses. Such viruses are not associated with any significant pathological changes in the bat population (O’Shea et al. 2014; Schountz 2014). Detailed studies are needed to understand the mechanisms of NiV transmission from bats-to-pigs, pigs-to-man, and from date palm sap to human and viral circulation between fruit bats, pigs and human beings. Fruit bats act as natural reservoir of Nipah viruses and among various outbreaks documented from different geographical parts of the globe these bats have been associated in one or other way for transmission of the virus and associated infection (Clayton et al. 2016; Yadav et al. 2018). From bats, the virus has crossed its species-barrier frequently to several other species including man through spilled over transmission, but with limited transmission from person to person thereafter (Gurley et al. 2017). Transmission of NiV to man occurs mainly in places where man, pigs and bats come in close proximity. People rear pigs for economic benefits and fruit bearing trees are also cultivated in and around the farm for shade. Bats of Pteropus spp. which are NiV reservoirs, are attracted by the fruits, hence NiV gets spilled over to pigs/animals and also to man. Infected pig meat travels across continents which led to transmission of virus from animals in one part of the world to people in another part of globe. This combination of close surroundings of fruiting trees, fruits- like date palm, fruit bats, pigs and man altogether form the basis of emergence and spread of new deadly zoonotic virus infections like Nipah (Pulliam et al. 2012).

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NiV transmission occurs via consumption of virus-contaminated foods and contact with infected animals or human body fluids. Risk factors include close proximity viz., touching, feeding or attending virus infected person, thus facilitating contact to droplet NiV infection. Recently, experimental studies with aerosolized NiV in Syrian hamsters revealed that NiV droplets (aerosol exposure) might play a role in transmitting NiV during close contact (Escaffre et al. 2018). Three transmission pathways of the Nipah virus have been identified after investigation carried out in Bangladesh. Consumption of freshdate palm sap is the most frequent route, with the consumption of tari (fermented date palm juice) being a potential pathway of viral transmission. NiV infection associated with tari can be prevented by prevention of the access of bat to date palm sap (Islam et al. 2016). Studies using infrared camera revealed that the date palm trees are often visited bats like Pteropus giganteus and during the process of collection of the sap, bats lick them. The virus can survive for days in sugar-rich solutions, viz., fruit pulp (Fogarty et al. 2008; Khan et al. 2008). The Nipah viral outbreak reported from Tangail district, Bangladesh was found to be associated with drinking of raw date palm sap. Notably, symptoms have been recognized in patients in Bangladesh during the season of collection of date palm sap, i.e. during December to March (Luby et al. 2006, 2009). Data also revealed high seroprevalence of anti-Nipah viral antibodies among Pteropusspp. This is suggestive of the fact that the virus has undergone adaptation well enough to get transmitted among Pteropus bats.

NiV is the most recently emerging zoonotic and highly deadly virus having pandemic threat. As an emerging and recognized zoonotic pathogen discovered in modern times, NiV causes severe febrile illness and high fatality rates in affected persons and is posing an ongoing high risk to the health of humans worldwide (Clayton 2017; Mukherjee 2017; Thibault et al. 2017). NiV is an uncommon but has become a deadly virus responsible for causing high fatality rates of 40–75%. Fruit bats (Pteropus) serve as natural hosts (wildlife reservoir) and pigs are the intermediate hosts for NiV zoonotic cycle (Paul 2018). During a large outbreak of acute encephalitis in Malaysia in 1998, the virus was discovered in affected patients having contact with sick pigs. The pigs got infection from bats, and then NiV spread proficiently among pig-to-pig, and thereafter from pig-to-man. Moreover, it has been revealed that Pteropus vampyrus and Pteropus hypomelanus (flying foxes in the Malysian Islands) bear the virus in saliva as well as urine, indicating their potential to act as natural reservoir of the virus (Looi and Chua 2007). It is interesting to note that there is always risk of spill over associated with NiV infection. Interaction of the molecular as well as ecological factors collectively that govern the susceptible nature of populations of animals (domestic) as well as humans are not understood yet well (Thibault et al. 2017).

Besides Malaysia, the fruit bats of Pteropus genus serve as the main reservoir of NiV in Thailand and Cambodia. Apart from drinking raw date palm sap contaminated by bats as a cause of initial outbreak, man-to-man and animal-to-man transmission is also a major mode of spread of the infection during an ongoing outbreak. Further, it has been found that direct contact of the susceptible population with the respiratory and body secretions of the infected patients increases the risk of acquiring the infection. During the NiV outbreak in Thakurgaon district, northwest Bangladesh, anti-NiV antibodies were detected in half of the Pteropus bats tested (Chadha et al. 2006; Gurley et al. 2007; Homaira et al. 2010a,b; Clayton 2017; Thibault et al. 2017). Other major public health threats appear to be acquiring NiV infection from the susceptible food and domestic animals. Many domesticated mammals seem to be susceptible to Nipah virus. This virus can be maintained in pig populations, but other domesticated animals such as sheep, goats, dogs, cats and horses appear to be incidental hosts acquiring the infection during outbreaks. Fruits punctured by the bat and contaminated with their saliva forma common source of transmission of NiV infection from bats to domestic animals. Consumption of fruits eaten partially by fruit bats may cause infection in pigs which may then transmit it to humans. Contact with sick cow was reported to have caused a case of human infection in Bangladesh (Chua 2003; Luby et al. 2012; Siddique et al. 2016; http://www.cfsph.iastate.edu/Factsheets/pdfs/nipah.pdf).

Consumption of fruits, vegetables or water contaminated with saliva, urine or fecal matter of infected bats could also be a possible mode of transmission to man and animals (Luby et al. 2009). Date palm sap can be used to prepare alcoholic beverages and such beverages when consumed can lead to human infection (Harit et al. 2006; Simons et al. 2014). Evidence from several NiV outbreaks indicate that consumption of undercooked meat from infected animals or handling of infected animals in the home, farm or slaughter houses may also pose risk of animal-to-man transmission (Chanchal et al. 2018).

Close contact with symptomatic patients or their infectious secretions has been implicated for human transmission of NiV in Bangladesh. Specific exposures can pose a high risk of person-to-person transmission, though sustained transmission do not occur in humans. Studies conducted in animal models further support this fact (Clayton 2017). The recent NiV outbreak in Kerala, India, which caused encephalitis in humans, raised global health concerns (Paul 2018).

The potential for a global pandemic due to NiV appears to stem from several features: availability of susceptible human population, several viral strains withpotential for person-to-person transmission, and error-prone nature of RNA virus replication. Outbreaks of NiV disease in densely populated regions like South Asia can lead to pandemics, due to extensive global travel and trade connectivity (Luby 2013). Many ecological and molecular factors underlie NiV spillover into humans and human and animal susceptibility to it, though the intricate interaction between these is unclear (Thibault et al. 2017). Research studies need to be undertaken to elaborate the molecular mechanisms of the respiratory transmission of NiV in order to reduce the risk of human-to-human transmission. Improved surveillance and vaccination strategies must also be adopted (Luby 2013).

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Vaccines

Vaccination of humans is an integral part of preventing infection due to NiV. Prevention also includes vaccination of livestock (especially pigs and probably horses) in endemic areas (Broder et al. 2016). Of note, outbreaks cannot be prevented amongst the livestock population in areas where contamination of date palm sap acts as major contributor to the spread of NiV infection. However, if vaccination of livestock is made cheap it may prove to be successful in certain regions. Extensive research involving preclinical studies in a number of animals and nonhuman primates have identified multiple vaccine candidates, including vectored and subunit vaccines, offering protective immunity (Satterfield et al. 2016a). Among vectored vaccines, one employing vesicular stomatitis virus has shown protection inferrets, African green monkeys, as well as hamsters (Mire et al. 2013). Despite these developments, funding for human clinical trials of candidate vaccines remains a problem for academic community.The pharmaceutical companies are hesitant to invest in research on development of vaccines for diseases like Nipah, which are rare occurrences, despite the high fatality.

A collaborative effort has been undertaken by both government and pharmaceutical companies, known as the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI). It was formed in January 2017 for developing safe, efficacious and affordable vaccines against diseases associated with pandemic potential, like Nipah (Satterfield 2017). NiV, Lassa virus and Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus (MERS-CoV) have been afforded high priority by CEPI. CEPI aims to develop two new experimental vaccines within five years, in the first phase of the clinical trial. It is anticipated that field efficacy studies of such vaccines could be done during massive outbreaks (Satterfield 2017). CEPI has recently signeda $25 million contract with two US Biotech companies, i.e. Profectus BioSciences and Emergent BioSolutions, to accelerate the work on developing a vaccine against the NiV.

DNA vaccines, virus-like particles, virus vectors(live and recombinant), and other advanced vaccines have been developed as strategies of immunization against both HeV and NiV (Walpita et al. 2011; Kong et al. 2012; Kurup et al. 2015). Experimental vaccines based on the several viral vectors, including the canarypox virus, vesicular stomatitis virus glycoprotein (VSVΔG) and rhabdovirus have been evaluated (Weingartl et al. 2006; Chattopadhyay and Rose 2011; Lo et al. 2014; Kurup et al. 2015; Satterfield et al. 2016a).

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Therapeutics and treatment modalities

The essence of treatment modalities along with effective therapeutics is understood, once there is an outbreak of an infectious disease. There is a need for administering therapeutics to manage the patients during NiV outbreaks and to prevent the mortality. No specific drug has been yet approved for the treatment of this important disease. Limited work has been done to develop therapeutics against NiV infection. In preclinical studies, monoclonal antibodies have been used for treatment purposes. Due to the expensive nature of the drugs based on antibodies, identification of broad spectrum antivirals is essential along with focusing on small interfering RNAs (siRNAs) (Satterfield 2017). In animal models, the NiV pathogenesis has been understood by shedding light on the crucial nature of phospho-matrix as well as accessory proteins. For the development of novel anti-NiV drugs, such viral proteins, fusion protein and glycoprotein of the virion surface are attractive targets (Mathieu et al. 2012; Satterfield et al. 2015, 2016b; Watkinson and Lee 2016; Satterfield 2017). A monoclonal antibody targeting the viral G glycoprotein has been shown beneficial in a ferret model of the NiV disease (Bossart et al. 2009). A successful outcome of an in vivo study using an investigational therapeutic, i.e. fully humanized monoclonal antibody m102.4 against NiV, in a nonhuman primate model highlights the availability of potential drug for NiV treatment in future (Geisbert et al. 2014). All the 12 African green monkeys that received m102.4 survived the NiV infection, whereas the untreated control subjects succumbed to disease between days 8 and 10 after infection. It has been noticed in the recent outbreak in Kerala in South India that the antiviral drug ribavirincould be explored as anti-NiV agent (https://indianexpress.com/article/i...n-kerala-everything-you-need-to-know-5194341/). Supportive therapies such as hydration and ventilator support constitute important aspects of clinical management of NiV cases.

It is to be noted that when neurological as well as respiratory troubles prevail use of antiviral drug viz., ribavirin along with intensive support care as well as immunomodulators are effective. However, the surveillance system concerning the animal health must be strengthened through a ‘One Health’ approach so that the public health authorities can be warned at an early stage (Dhama et al. 2013a; Chattu et al. 2018).

Conclusion and future directions

Over the past two decades, the Nipah viral pathogenesis along with the transmission have been much well understood due to extensive research. This understanding is going to be more advanced in the decade to come. It is important to note in this regard that the practical utility of this understanding will be reflected in the entry of Nipah viral vaccines into clinical trials in humans, and modification of risk factors in order to prevent infection. Further, such understanding will be great aid in developing techniques along with therapeutics for treatment of infected subjects for reduction of morbidity as well as mortality. Prevention of such zoonotic disease in agricultural and healthcare workers should be a priority. Scientists have presented from platform like Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network (GOARN) especially after the outbreaks in Bangladesh and India and marked the necessity of development of network communicating between veterinary and medical services concerning this disease. By involving the multiple sectors and with multidisciplinary approach, precise and concrete preventive strategies can be planned and implemented.

The ‘One Health’ approach is also the utmost importance. There is requirement of coordination between institutes as well as at the international level among virologists from both medical and veterinary fields as well as ecologists for understanding to the fullest the period and mechanism involved in excretion of the virus by the bats. At the same time, the common people should be educated about food hygiene as well as hygiene at personal level. Inspection of all the imported livestock at the time of arrival and also before travel at the point of origin is essential. Proper isolation, quarantine and disinfection protocol including infrastructure facilities and trained personnel with protective clothing should be in place to respond quickly upon identification of any new case. There should be maintenance of proper hygiene at maximum level for slaughtering such livestock. For preventing future NiV outbreaks, a continuous surveillance in the area of human health, animal health, and reservoir hosts should be carried out to determine the prevalence and to predict risk of virus transmission in human and swine populations. Successful accelerated development of preventive vaccines and therapeutic antibodies or antivirals are need of the hour to control the spread and treat the infected patients during an outbreak. Collaborative efforts such as CEPI and biotech companies will accelerate the vaccine or therapeutic development for NiV.
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At this point it appears the video I originally posted on this virus has been changed to a different video and so for it appears my source has been deleted from off the web . The federal boys must be watching me close today as this happened also on another site . --- There is no mention on the above link about a connection between the Wuhan lab and the nipah virus . At least I am giving some federal employee a job .

 

"Top Scientist Lays Out Case for Wuhan Lab Leak – Warns They May Have An Even Deadlier Virus"
"by Matt PalumboPosted: October 9, 2021"

https://bongino.com/top-scientist-l...k-warns-they-may-have-an-even-deadlier-virus/

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That COVID-19 escaped from the Wuhan lab went from a “fringeconspiracy theory” to one of the leading explanations for the pandemic in record time.

Every couple of weeks it seems that there’s a new piece of evidence supporting the theory, and Dr. Stephen Quay laid out the case in his explosive but underreported Wall Street Journal article titled “Science Closes in on Covid’s Origins,” while arguing that a virus far more dangerous may be in that lab.

He spoke to Fox’s Martha MacCallum to discuss it earlier this week. The relevant quotes from the interview are as follows:

Dr. Quay on why all evidence points directly towards the lab: “My work has shown that we don’t need to get inside the institution to answer these questions. And I think that’s an important thing that people realize. I think there’s a lot of kicking the can down the road. But you know, after two years, we’ve done a lot of studies and all of the evidence points directly toward the laboratory. There’s no evidence it supports a natural origin at this point. And so it’s I think I think we’re done at this point with the investigation.”

Dr. Quay on why COVID didn’t come from an animal: “The virus is absolutely pure at the beginning as opposed to having a lot of diversity that you would expect to. That’s a one in a million possibility. And there is no infections in humans in 10000 blood samples that were taken. Again, we were expecting about 400. That’s also a one in a million probability. So the three things in a zoonosis the animal, the virus and the human all point toward a laboratory accident.”

Dr. Quay on a potentially more deadly virus in the Wuhan lab: “..inside the Wuhan Institute of Virology in patients specimens in December 2019. What I found there was that the lab was contaminated with Nipah virus research that’s about two years ahead of SARS-CoV-2. Now, Nipah virus is 80 percent lethal. So this is not, you know, if you didn’t like the pandemic, that was just one percent lethal. This thing they were working on in December 2019 has an 80 percent lethality. It needs to be stopped.”
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https://www.prnewswire.com/news-rel...etic-manipulation-of-the-nipah-301340705.html

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https://www.visiontimes.com/2021/08/26/quay-wuhan-nipah-virus.html

On July 3, Dr. Steven Quay and three other researchers published a paper examining sequencing data found in five early COVID-19 patients in China. In a press release for the preprint publication of the study, the researchers said their findings, “Reveal that the laboratory at the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) was contaminated with a wide range of viruses, including Nipah virus genes in a cloning vector.”

The data examined was originally sequenced by the WIV itself in 2019 and were part of a study published by coronavirus gain of function research champion Shi “Batwoman” Zhengli.

Notably, Quay’s study found that “the most abundant contaminant is an undisclosed H7N9 influenza vaccine, which in one specimen is over six-times as abundant as SARS-CoV-2.” In addition, “Nipah virus gene sequences were found in infectious cloning vectors of the type used for genetic manipulation.”

There were 19 other contaminants, including “Japanese Encephalitis virus, HIV, human T-cell leukemia virus, and hepatitis delta virus.”

Quay commented on the study in statements made to The Epoch Times, saying, “We started fishing inside for weird things,” when they did their re-analysis of the WIV’s data. He also confirmed that they had “found genetic manipulation of the Nipah virus, which is more lethal than Ebola.”

The president of Epoch Times’ sister media, NTD Television, Joe Wang, PhD, described as having “formerly spearheaded a vaccine development program for SARS in Canada with one of the world’s leading pharmaceutical companies,” also examine Quay’s study.

According to the outlet, Wang “was able to replicate Quay’s findings on the Henipah virus,” adding Wang’s explanation “that the genetic manipulation of the virus was likely for the purposes of vaccine development.”

In the press release for Quay’s paper, he states, “It was surprising to find a menagerie of deadly viruses, strange pathogens, and even honeysuckle, plant genes in patient specimens sequenced at the WIV in December 2019, especially since this patient sequencing data has been publicly available to the entire scientific community inside of the US NIH GenBank database since February 2020.”

“The apparent widespread contamination of the laboratory at the very time the pandemic was just beginning is of course worrisome. But more important is getting answers to these questions: Why do these patient specimens contain an unreported influenza vaccine? What was the purpose of creating an undisclosed, apparently infectious clone of the deadly Nipah virus? Is this Nipah research part of another gain-of-function research project at the Wuhan Institute of Virology?”
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From the same link:

https://www.visiontimes.com/2021/08/26/quay-wuhan-nipah-virus.html

Possible Canadian link

In May of 2019, months before the earliest dates COVID-19 was reported, Canada’s federal law enforcement, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), quietly escorted two Chinese researchers from the country’s own BSL4 laboratory, the National Institute of Microbiology (NML) in Winnipeg.

The dismissal of the duo, a married couple, Qiu Xiangguo and Cheng Keding, was referred to only as a “possibly policy breach,” was quickly buried in Canadian media, and flew under the radar until August when the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) finally disclosed to the public with the reason for Qiu and Cheng’s dismissal: they had shipped samples of Ebola and Henipavirus to the WIV.

Henipavirus is a class of viruses that contains Nipah Virus and causes the disease known as Marburg, which the NML’s own researchers reported in a 2018 study had a 75 to 100 percent fatality rate.

Despite the scandal, PHAC nonetheless kept Qiu and Cheng employed at the NML until January of this year. In June of 2020, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) found the couple had actually shipped samples of 15 different viruses to the WIV.

CBC also found through Access to Information requests that Qiu had flown to China at least five times to train WIV scientists. Her trips were funded by an entity whose identity was redacted.

The broadcaster also found Qiu had added 32 publications to her name after the time she was removed from the NML, mostly involving Ebola and Marburg. Qiu also has at least eight studies published with Yan Feihu, a Chinese Academy of Sciences researcher, which is an arm of the People’s Liberation Army’s Military-Civil Fusion initiative.

CBC also noted sources at the NML, who wished to remain anonymous, saw Yan at the NML, which requires a secret-level security clearance to work at and an additional level of clearance for researchers working on fatal diseases.

Qiu and Cheng have not been seen since their 2019 removal, according to CBC. The couple were reported to own $1.7 million in homes in Winnipeg, which were said to be unoccupied for several months when the CBC interviewed neighbours. The broadcaster also said Qiu bragged to co-workers about owning a mansion in China.

The couple’s combined salary at the NML was reported to be less than $250,000 annually.

 

Thanks Old Geezer - It appears you found the information the federal boys scrubbed from the original post .

 

"Reduce Population to Save the Planet, Says Former UK Finance Chief"

https://www.breitbart.com/europe/20...save-the-climate-claims-former-finance-cheif/

"In contrast, the United Kingdom is expected to see an increase in the population of 5.2 per cent over the same time period to 71.1 million people, driven in large part by mass migration."

 

Just my guess but think this is the most likely reason Covid 19 and the blood clot vaccine has been introduced to the masses . Now potentially an even more deadly virus may be coming to ravage the planet .