by Lance D Johnson,Natural News:
A taxpayer-funded virus lab in Colorado has confirmed a spate of 50 safety control lapses between 2020 and 2023, including workers bitten by COVID-infected hamsters, splashed with tuberculosis-infected mouse blood and scratched by rabid cats, yet the public was kept in the dark until a Freedom of Information Act request forced the university to release exclusive documents.
At the same time, a separate whistleblower letter alleges that an NIH-funded scientist at Montana’s Rocky Mountain Laboratories attempted to smuggle “dozens of vials” of foreign viruses onto U.S. soil from Africa, prompting a cover-up that HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has reportedly referred to the FBI.
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These two cases, unfolding hundreds of miles apart, lay bare a disturbing pattern: dangerous gain of function research continues behind closed doors; public trust is treated as expendable; and the institutions supposed to protect Americans are importing, concealing and normalizing biological risk.
The Colorado State University facility in Fort Collins, a city of roughly 168,000 people, has been a premier research site for studying bats since the 1980s and is regarded as a leading institution in infectious disease studies. Yet the documents uncovered by theDaily Mailshow a string of accidents that undermine that reputation. Twelve researchers were bitten by mice carrying hemorrhagic fever. One researcher contracted Zika virus after experimenting with infected mosquitoes. Workers were splashed in the face with tuberculosis-infected mouse blood. Rabid cats scratched staff members. In nearly every case, the public was kept in the dark about potential health risks.
Dr. Bryce Nichols, commenting on the matter for theDaily Mail, noted that “dozens of laboratory accidents at CSU have become known only because of a public records request.” This lack of transparency is deeply concerning and underscores a disturbing trend in research ethics. Researchers have an ethical obligation to report any lab accidents that could pose risks to the public, but this does not always occur due to a combination of dishonesty and unethical behavior. The university has attempted to deflect blame for these incidents by citing stress from the COVID-19 pandemic. Yet it is worth noting that COVID-19 originated in a laboratory setting similar to this one, meaning they are blaming their own unsafe and unethical practices on an event potentially caused by such behavior.
Source: SGT Report
