A shocking discovery was made recently in California, where a an illegal Chinese-owned biolab was discovered.
A code enforcement officer - Jesalyn Harper - in Reedley, California stumbled upon the potentially deadly lab: Upon entering the dimly lit building, Harper was met with a chilling sight: a clandestine operation involving laboratory equipment, manufacturing devices, dangerous chemicals, and medical-grade freezers and containment units, all harbouring thousands of vials of biological substances.
A USA Today study uncovered more than 200 biosafety 3 or 4 biolabs in all 50 states.
These labs store and handle some of the most dangerous pathogens on the planet.
A study conducted after the COVID pandemic uncovered a shocking number of accidental releases of dangerous pathogens at legal US biolabs: There were 219 reported releases of biological select agents or toxins from biolabs in the U.S. in 2019, according to the most recent annual report of the Federal Select Agent Program, a joint effort of the CDC, NIH, and U.S. Department of Agriculture to manage the use and transport of some of the most dangerous biological agents and toxins, including ricin, Ebola, and anthrax.
The Federal Select Agent Program did not respond to questions about how many of the select agents and toxins it oversees were released in 2020 and how many times the agents that were released came from BSL-2, BSL-3, or BSL-4 labs.
How Do You Protect Your Family from the Dangerous Biolabs? It is clear that these legal and illegal biolabs pose a significant threat to the American people and even more disturbing we know we can't trust our government to protect us from these labs.
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