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Chinese Scientist Tried Smuggling In Virus Into The USA A Year Before Covid-19 by ugonwanneokoye: 6:40am On Apr 02, 2020
AN FBI report warned of a "biosecurity risk" coming from China more than a year before the coronavirus outbreak reached the United States.

In November 2018, US customs officials at Detroit Metro Airport intercepted virus samples carried by a Chinese biologist, unclassified documents obtained by Yahoo News reveal.According the documents, the biologist was carrying three samples labeled "Antibodies" within his luggage.

The scientist reportedly told officials that colleagues in China had asked him to take the vials to a researcher at a U.S. institute.Customs officials then concluded that the materials into the vials could have been SARS or MERS materials.

The report read: "Inspection of the writing on the vials and the stated recipient led inspection personnel to believe the materials contained within the vials may be viable Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) and Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) materials."

The name of the Chinese scientist who carried the suspected SARS and MERS samples was not named in the report, which was written by the Chemical and Biological Intelligence Unit of the FBI’s Weapons of Mass Destruction Directorate (WMDD).
ALARMING PATTERN

The recipient in the U.S. was also not named, but the FBI's report did conclude that the incident was part of an alarming pattern, as two other cases were also cited.All three cases cited within the report involved Chinese nationals and, though referred to broadly as foreign researchers, the report appears to show the FBI's concern with China bringing such biological materials into the U.S.

The report was released more than two months before the coronavirus outbreak started in the Chinese city of Wuhan, where the World Health Organization first became aware of an initial cluster of what it believed to be pneumonia cases.

The report read: “The Weapons of Mass Destruction Directorate assesses foreign scientific researchers who transport undeclared and undocumented biological materials into the United States in their personal carry-on and/or checked luggage almost certainly present a US biosecurity risk.

“The WMDD makes this assessment with high confidence based on liaison reporting with direct access.”As well as the SARS and MERS incident, other cases cited in the report reportedly involved flu strains and what was suspected to be E. coli.

The FBI report refers to both biosecurity, which usually covers the intentional misuse of pathogens, such as for bioterrorism, and biosafety, which covers releases made by accident.

Concerns over China's lapse approaches to biosafety are nothing new, but following the coronavirus pandemic's spread worldwide, tensions between the US and China on the topic have only risen.

In recent weeks, President Donald Trump has taken to calling COVID-19 the "Chinese Virus," while conspiracy theories have spread that China started the virus deliberately.
Other conspiracy theories coming out of Beijing have included the COVID-19 virus being formulated in a U.S. weapons lab.

As of Tuesday, there have been more than 850,000 coronavirus cases worldwide – including more than 185,000 in the United States and more than 81,000 confirmed cases in China.

More than 3,800 people have died from the virus in the U.S., while China has seen reported 3,305 deaths.

https://www.the-sun.com/news/618726/fbi-warned-biosecurity-risk-china-coronavirus/amp/
Re: Chinese Scientist Tried Smuggling In Virus Into The USA A Year Before Covid-19 by helinues: 6:41am On Apr 02, 2020
Another nonsense thread
Re: Chinese Scientist Tried Smuggling In Virus Into The USA A Year Before Covid-19 by Lavisha(f): 6:42am On Apr 02, 2020
chaii.
Re: Chinese Scientist Tried Smuggling In Virus Into The USA A Year Before Covid-19 by Jayjezey: 6:45am On Apr 02, 2020
China will never cease to amaze me shocked shocked
Re: Chinese Scientist Tried Smuggling In Virus Into The USA A Year Before Covid-19 by sammyj: 6:49am On Apr 02, 2020
This one weak man ooo. Hopefully the truth surrounding this killer virus one surely come one. Las las we go get sense! shocked
Re: Chinese Scientist Tried Smuggling In Virus Into The USA A Year Before Covid-19 by mazimee(m): 6:52am On Apr 02, 2020
I am not surprised if this ends up as their way in crippling other countries economy and human resources to set a new world power.

As you can see, they have just recovered very quickly and are doing fine.
Re: Chinese Scientist Tried Smuggling In Virus Into The USA A Year Before Covid-19 by Redoil: 7:05am On Apr 02, 2020
little wonder Chinese are and shedding crocodile tears
Re: Chinese Scientist Tried Smuggling In Virus Into The USA A Year Before Covid-19 by berbs: 7:05am On Apr 02, 2020
I've already said this a number of times that these Viruses are laboratory grown engineered.

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Re: Chinese Scientist Tried Smuggling In Virus Into The USA A Year Before Covid-19 by Olominira(m): 9:06am On Apr 02, 2020
Chinese scientist smuggling bioweapon from US to China. So, what's US doing with bioweapon in the first place? US is at it again, this is pure evidence that US created this weapon. There's something I have noticed about US intelligence. When they're ready to blackmail you or a nation they would come up, link or frame you up one way or the other.

There are many instances globally, let's use one here in Nigeria as an example, the Airpeace Boss Onyema, was doing just fine but 3 weeks after signing a deal to purchase 5 aircraft from Brazilian made jet, abandoning Boeing He suddenly became a fraudster, whereas he wasn't a fraudster when he was signing purchase of those Boeing he's currently using at the US embassy here in Nigeria. FBI wasn't awared he stole money.

Another example; just few days after MTN signed 5G contract with Huawei for Johannesburg and Lagos. The company was accussed of financing terrorists and FBI quickly charged them to court in the US. I can go on with several cases outside Nigeria.

The fact that FBI is accussing these Chinese makes this questionable. I stop believing anything US recently, they're not clean about this coronavirus. God will judge those behind sooner or later

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