Researchers behind the plans said the lab will boost America's 'ability to study the role of bats in disease transmission and help us become even stronger in researching emerging zoonotic pathogens.
A document submitted by CSU researchers in December 2022 states: 'We will infect horseshoe bats with SARS-CoV2 and a SARSr-CoV detected in these bats.
While reporting of the proposed lab is not new, documents obtained by WCW and provided to DailyMail.com show a multi-year, multi-agency coordinated effort to establish a bat research group and a research facility originally intended for high containment pathogens.
Early documents from 2017 show Zhengli attended a symposium hosted by CSU that served as a kickoff for the Global Bat Alliance, a group proposed to 'build and leverage country and regional capabilities to generate an enhanced understanding of bats and their ecology within the context of pathogens of security concern.
CSU is a premier research facility for studying bats dating back to the 1980s.
It currently conducts its bat research in its Center for Vector-Borne Diseases, which houses one of the only bat breeding colonies for use in experimental research in bat-borne viral diseases in the US. Dr Ebel said in a 2021 press release: 'The new center will be a one-of-a-kind facility dedicated to maintaining bat colonies for research.
An initiative called the Covid Bat Research Moratorium of Colorado wants to put the project on hold, saying on its website more information should first be compiled regarding a 'possible Covid bat lab leak and gain-of-function research in Wuhan, China.
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