NIH Documents Provide New Evidence U.S. Funded Gain-of-Function Research in Wuhan

Posted on AllSides September 10th, 2021
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DOCUMENTS OBTAINED BY The Intercept contain new evidence that the Wuhan Institute of Virology and the nearby Wuhan University Center for Animal Experiment, along with their collaborator, the U.S.-based nonprofit EcoHealth Alliance, have engaged in what the U.S. government defines as “gain-of-function research of concern,” intentionally making viruses more pathogenic or transmissible in order to study them, despite stipulations from a U.S. funding agency that the money not be used for that purpose.

Grant money for the controversial experiment came from the National Institutes of Health’s National Institute of Allergy and...

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https://theintercept.com/2021/09/09/covid-origins-gain-of-function-research/

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