Pandemic research firm Metabiota struggled with safety and data problems
[caption id="attachment_17763" align="aligncenter" width="800"] USAID PREDICT completes sampling visit to Ratchaburi Province, Thailand, 2018; Photo: Richard Nyberg, USAID[/caption] Metabiota,...
May 19, 2022
Virologists push back on more regulation of viruses made more lethal in the lab
[caption id="attachment_17705" align="aligncenter" width="822"] An electron microscope image shows SARS-CoV-2. (Photo credit: NIH)[/caption] Virologists pushed back on the possibility of tighter...
April 27, 2022
U.S. Right to Know confirms a third maximum containment lab in China
[caption id="attachment_17696" align="aligncenter" width="834"] Representatives of the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences are pictured with representatives of the University of Texas Medical Branch...
April 26, 2022
Wuhan Iab can delete data in ‘explosive’ legal agreement with U.S. lab
[caption id="attachment_17675" align="aligncenter" width="2048"] The interior of the Galveston National Laboratory is pictured. (Photo credit: UTMB)[/caption] April 20, 3:40 p.m.: This story has...
April 20, 2022
Emails raise questions about China’s sway over first WHO mission on COVID-19
[caption id="attachment_17666" align="aligncenter" width="1600"] A WHO mission to China led by Bruce Aylward offered the world a first glimpse at COVID-19, but the picture may have been distorted by...
April 13, 2022
WHO chief Tedros: No dispositive evidence yet on COVID’s origin
[caption id="attachment_17650" align="aligncenter" width="805"] WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said in an interview that he will "keep pushing" on a COVID-19 origins investigation....
April 8, 2022
U.S. virologist let Wuhan scientists revise his Congressional briefing
[caption id="attachment_17639" align="aligncenter" width="893"] James Le Duc (left) gives a tour of Galveston National Laboratory. (Credit: UTMB)[/caption] An American virologist asked Wuhan...
April 5, 2022
Lab accident is ‘most likely but least probed’ COVID origin, State Dept. memo says
[caption id="attachment_17620" align="alignnone" width="1024"] Wuchang Station in Wuhan, China, is pictured in 2013. (Credit: Tauno Tõhk)[/caption] State Department officials considered a lab...
March 28, 2022
Celebrated virus hunter siphoned taxpayer funds for his private ‘Global Virome Project’
[caption id="attachment_17584" align="aligncenter" width="638"] A Lassa virus budding off a cell. (NIAID)[/caption] A former U.S. Agency for International Development official founded and worked...
March 16, 2022
‘What would Jim do?’: U.S. virologist close to Wuhan lab quietly called for investigation
[caption id="attachment_17550" align="alignright" width="400"] Galveston National Laboratory is pictured on the right. (Courtesy of: Wikimedia Commons)[/caption] James Le Duc, a biosafety expert...
March 3, 2022