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The federal government failed to notice an unlicensed bio lab in Reedley, California, which stored many communicable diseases and was created by a fugitive Chinese citizen with close ties to China’s government, according to a congressional report.
The report by the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party also said that President Joe Biden’s Centers for Disease Control and Prevention spent at least two months ignoring pleas by local officials to examine and contain the disease storehouse. The storehouse contained canisters of deadly viruses and diseases, including Malaria, HIV, tuberculosis, China’s coronavirus, and perhaps, Ebola.
The apparent illegal migrant ringleader was finally arrested in October and charged with fraud crimes, long after he fled from a Canadian court in 2016, and long after he began reportedly selling fraudulent medical products to Americans.
“A disturbing realization is that no one knows whether there are other unknown biolabs in the United States,” said the bipartisan, 42-page report, dubbed “The Reedley Report.”
The federal government rarely tries to learn from its failures, and there is little evidence that the Department of Homeland Security, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the FBI, or the Federal Trade Commission, are investigating their multi-agency failure. California’s state government also failed to detect the operation until a city inspector in Reedly, CA, discovered an improper water release. --->READ MORE HERE
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Congressional probe warns of ‘profound threat’ to U.S. homeland
A biolab illicitly run by a Chinese national in California contained traces of coronavirus, HIV, malaria, and other infectious diseases, but federal authorities spent months ignoring pleas from local officials to shut the site down, according to a report from congressional investigators.
The lab was discovered in December 2022, when officers in Reedley, California, a rural town of 26,000 residents, accidentally stumbled on the nondescript warehouse. Once inside, "several individuals who identified themselves as PRC nationals'' were seen working "with thousands of vials of biological substances," according to a months-long investigation by the House Select Committee on China published Thursday and provided to the Washington Free Beacon.
The makeshift lab—run by a Chinese national—contained live mice and freezers filled with improperly stored "pathogens and other unknown biological and chemical substances." It was determined the lab was housing a witch’s brew of infectious diseases, including HIV, the coronavirus, "infectious parasites," and a storage area marked "Ebola." While local officials in Reedley contacted the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) to report the findings, the federal government spent months ignoring the city’s pleas for assistance and only became involved after a member of Congress began applying pressure earlier this year.
The discovery of the lab, and the federal government’s slow response, "presents a grave national security risk that could be exploited in the future," according to the congressional committee’s findings. It is unknown if other unlicensed China-tied biolabs are operating in the United States and what types of diseases they could be experimenting with under unsafe conditions, congressional investigators said. If the pathogens discovered in the Reedley lab leaked, an untold number of Americans could have fallen ill. --->READ MORE HEREFollow links below to relevant/related stories and resources:
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