by Natalie Winters at The National Pulse
The unearthing of the 2015 conference follows a recent exchange where Senator Rand Paul probed Dr. Anthony Fauci about whether or not his agency, the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease (NIAID), had funded the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
“For years, Dr. Ralph Baric, a virologist in the U.S., has been collaborating with Dr. Shi Zhengli of the Wuhan Virology Institute, sharing his discoveries about how to create super viruses. This gain-of-function research has been funded by the NIH.” Senator Paul outlined before Fauci asserted the claims were “entirely and completely incorrect.”
Adding to a growing list of evidence revealing otherwise, The National Pulse can reveal that Baric spoke at a Chinese Academy of Sciences event in 2015 discussing gain-of-function research – which can increases the transmissibility or lethality of a virus – alongside researchers working for China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA).
In addition to featuring high-level Wuhan Institute of Virology researchers, two individuals from the Academy of Military Medical Sciences were also in attendance.
The two-day event – the 34th meeting of the Beijing Life Science Forum-Seminar on Emerging Infectious Diseases, Laboratory Safety and Global Health Safety Issues – started on September 29th, 2015. “Strengthening academic exchanges and discussions, taking advantage of international cooperation and joint research, and better responding to emerging outbreaks of infectious disease research have become major issues facing global health security,” notes a summary of the joint event with the U.S. National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NAS).
The fifth session of the event was titled “Gain of Function Research” and featured a Chinese scientist lecturing on “Phosphorylation regulates the replication of influenza A virus” and American scientist David Franz delivering a lecture on the “NAS Gain-of-Function Meeting Report (The scientists’ view).”…
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