Documents show scientists across multiple U.S.-funded projects proposed altering spike proteins and cleavage sites in bat viruses — work that echoed ideas later floated in the controversial DEFUSE proposal
Emails reveal Wuhan virologist Zhengli Shi asked a U.S. collaborator to hand-carry antibodies to China, bypassing formal shipping protocols.
More than six years after COVID-19 emerged in China and killed millions worldwide, newly released intelligence records show that the Defense Intelligence Agency was evaluating a detailed lab-origin scenario as early as March 2020 — weeks into the pandemic and well before the issue became a subject of public debate.
New language in the National Defense Authorization Act of 2026 calls on intelligence agencies to declassify intelligence records for public release, potentially lifting a veil of redactions on COVID origins evidence that largely has been kept secret for the past six years.
EcoHealth Alliance president Peter Daszak planned to continue coronavirus research unfunded after NIH suspended grant
The entire chain of virus hunting work entails risks that can lead to accidental infection, from handling animals to experiments in the lab.
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