What could possibly go wrong? Perhaps another preventable pandemic that kills millions of people?
The Daily Mail reported Tuesday that Communist Chinese scientists discovered eight never-before-seen viruses on a tropical island. The project was funded by the Chinese government.
Researchers took almost 700 samples from rodents on Hainan, which is located just off of China’s southern coast. 9 million people currently reside on the island.
Analysis from the scientists revealed a host of new so-called “novel” viruses, including one new coronavirus that they named CoV-HMU-1. This was found to be a betacoronavirus, a sub-genre of coronaviruses which includes COVID-19.
The other pathogens discovered were as follows:
Two new pestiviruses, which are related to yellow fever and dengue.
A new astrovirus, a family of viruses that cause infections like stomach bugs.
Two new parvoviruses, which can cause “flu-like” symptoms.
Two new papillomaviruses, a family of pathogens that can cause genital warts and cancer in people.
The scientists claim that the newly discovered viruses have a ‘high probability’ of infecting humans should they ever cross the species barrier. The Daily Mail reports they now plan to experiment with them to determine exactly what their effects on humans could be.
The Daily Mail also reveals the findings were shared in the journal Virologica Sinica, which is the publishing arm of the Chinese Society for Microbiology (CSM).
Moreover, Virologica Sinica is edited by Dr Shi Zhengli, an influential scientist previously described as China’s ‘bat woman’ who works inside the Wuhan Institute of Virology. This place is almost certainly source of the Covid pandemic as the Gateway Pundit previously reported.
A reasonable person may rightfully wonder why these scientists are even bothering to collect viruses to begin with. Whatever happened to leaving nature alone?
Given China’s well-known lack of security measures, the odds of one or more of these pathogens escaping from a lab cannot be discounted. Should this occur, the communist country will have likely engineered the next global pandemic.
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