Taxpayer-funded animal experiments tied to Chinese 'wet markets' and Wuhan laboratory

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By Carlin Becker

Taxpayers have unwittingly funded the same "wet markets" and laboratory in China that lawmakers are turning their attention to during the coronavirus pandemic.

As recently as 2015, the Department of Agriculture purchased live animals, such as cats and dogs, with U.S. tax dollars at Chinese meat markets similar to the one in Wuhan, which has been tied to early cases of COVID-19. The department also paid for the animals to be slaughtered and transported back to the United States for experiments in which their remains were fed to other animals.

One study involved feeding the body parts of euthanized cats from the markets to kittens in a project that taxpayer watchdog White Coat Waste Project called "kitten cannibalism." The experiments were intended to study a parasite that causes the foodborne illness toxoplasmosis and cost $22 million over several years before getting shut down in 2019.

As the world continues to combat the coronavirus, Congress-- excerpt, rest at link above --

REVEALED: U.S. government gave $3.7 million grant to Wuhan lab at center of coronavirus leak scrutiny that was performing experiments on bats from the caves where the disease is believed to have originated

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By Frances Mulraney and Glenn Owen For The Mail On Sunday
01:49 12 Apr 2020, updated 05:21 12 Apr 2020

The US National Institutes of Health, a government agency, awarded a $3.7million research grant to the Wuhan Institute of VirologyThe lab is the center of several conspiracy theories that suggest it is the original source of the coronavirus outbreak. The institute experimented on bats from the source of the coronavirus. They were captured more than 1,000 miles away in Yunnan. Sequencing of the Covid-19 genome has traced it to bats to Yunnan's cavesThe U.S. government funded research on coronavirus transmission in the lab over the past decadeLearn more about how to help people impacted by COVID.

The Chinese laboratory at the center of scrutiny over a potential coronavirus leak has been using U.S. government money to carry out research on bats from the caves which scientists believe are the original source of the deadly outbreak.

The Wuhan Institute of Virology undertook coronavirus experiments on mammals captured more than 1,000 miles away in Yunnan which were funded by a $3.7 million grant from the US government.......

The revelation that the Wuhan Institute was experimenting on bats from the area already known to be the source of COVID-19 - and doing so with American money - has sparked further fears that the lab, and not the market, is the original outbreak source......

The NIH is the primary agency of the United States government responsible for biomedical and public health research.

The Wuhan Institute lists them on their website as a partner as well as several other American academic institutions.....

Other U.S. partners include the University of Alabama, the University of North Texas, Harvard University, and the National Wildlife Federation.-- excerpt, rest at link above --

So, bottom line, the NIH used American taxpayers' hard earned money to fund a Chinese lab which produced a virus that has killed Americans and shut down our economy and society.