When President Trump proposed that the Covid-19 infection was due to a lab release from the Wuhan Institute of Virology, this was howled down by the woke pro-Chinese communist establishment, as a "racist" thing to say. And, as has been covered in other posts, academics and scientific organisations will not debate this issue because of the Chinese factor, showing how China has deeply penetrated academia. Still, the FBI holds to the Wuhan Institute of Virology lab leak hypothesis, as they have a little more freedom, not being dependent upon Chinese money for funding as the universities across the West, especially Australia, now are.
Add to this, there is now a story that researchers at France's Pasteur Institute believe that it is possible that a "highly evolved" strain of polio may have been released from this same Chinese lab causing a viral outbreak in China's Anhui province. That virus was found to be 99 percent identical to one that originated within the Wuhan institute itself.
If true, and it looks to be so, this shows once more the shocking lack of bio-safety of the communist Chinese labs. Even without deliberate releases, there could still be a release at some point of a real pandemic killer. More likely, something will be deliberately released against the West as a new bioweapon, given the pathetic response the West made to Covid-19, out of fear of China.
"The Chinese lab that the FBI believes likely leaked Covid-19 may have also released a 'highly evolved' strain of polio in 2014.
A bombshell new study suggests that this polio strain, which infected a four-year-old boy amid a wider viral outbreak in China's Anhui province, is '99 percent' identical to a polio variant that was stored 200 miles away, during that same time period, at the infamous Wuhan Institute of Virology.
Researchers at France's Pasteur Institute cannot say with certainty where this strain, dubbed 'WIV14,' originated. But they insisted two possibilities 'must be explored' — including the chance that WIV14 polio originated within the Wuhan institute itself
'The findings underscore the shocking unsafe state of global virology research,' Harvard-trained molecular biologist Dr Richard Ebright, who was not involved with the research, told DailyMail.com.
The Pasteur researchers suspect that WIV14 polio, so named by the Wuhan scientists who first catalogued the strain, likely evolved from a well-preserved, 1950s strain of the virus used — almost exclusively — in vaccine production and laboratory settings.
The Wuhan lab's rough proximity to Anhui province and its burgeoning reputation for lax safety protocols have also added weight to this possible explanation.
If true, the theory would join a chorus of outcry over safety lapses at China's state-run infectious disease lab, whose US funding was cut last year by the Biden White House amid ongoing scrutiny on Capitol Hill over its role in the Covid-19 pandemic.
Although a global vaccination regime implemented across more than half a century has largely succeeded in eradicating the scourge of polio, cases have bloomed in conflict zones over the past few years, including Gaza, Afghanistan and Pakistan.
According to the UN's World Health Organization (WHO), 125 positive samples of polio appeared in Afghanistan last year, to China's west, with 34 more cases in 2024.
And for the first time a decade, polio remerged in the United States in 2022, with the virus being detected in sewage over 70 times during testing in in New York.
The Pasteur Institute's researchers compared DNA from the whole genome of the WIV14 polio strain against the 'Saukett A' strain used to make many polio vaccines.
They found only 70 nucleotides (nt) of difference between the two strains — across genomes containing over seven thousand of the fundamental DNA building blocks.
'[Because] Saukett A and WIV14 share more than 99-percent nt similarity,' they wrote, '[it] is therefore possible that several undocumented PV [polio virus] leaks occurred in the past from facilities handling PVs.'
But, Dr Maël Bessaud, who directs the Pasteur Institute's center for tracking polioviruses, and his team cautioned: 'WIV14 could thus have emerged after a PV strain released anywhere in the world had circulated before being sampled in China.'
Dr Bessaud and his co-authors did, however, propose one theory that would lay the blame directly on medical researchers at the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV).
In this scenario, 'cross-contamination' at WIV would have led to a false positive — mistaking a lab-leaked and slightly lab-mutated version of Saukett A for a new wild strain of polio, WIV14, in the 4-year-old child who was tested in 2014.
'According to that scenario,' as Dr Ebright explained it to DailyMail.com, 'it is a WIV lab strain and a WIV lab contamination.'"