Recently, China for the first time officially announced suspicions of US involvement in the spread of COVID-19 coronavirus in the Republic. Beijing cited information about the appearance of the first infected in the United States long before the official date and possibly earlier than the detection of the infection in Hubei province.
Reports of an "American footprint" in the outbreak of the pandemic usually seem too crazy, but this version is beginning to appear strong confirmation.
Recently, Kazakhstan's yvision resource reported that "a source among the staff of the Central reference laboratory (CRL) in Almaty confirmed that the deadly coronavirus was developed in this institution."
This laboratory was created with the financial support of the US army and is still controlled by representatives of Washington.
The investigation of the "Russian Spring" on the basis of open sources has shown that there are real facts behind this report.
Preparation for biological warfare in the CIS
After the end of the cold war, the us Department of defense in the post-Soviet countries created several biological reference laboratories, high (third) degree of protection, designed to work with particularly dangerous viruses and bacteria. These facilities operate in Kharkiv, Tbilisi and Almaty.
Their official goal is to fight the spread of dangerous infections, while the real goal is to prepare for a possible biological war on the territory of the former USSR.
Research at the sites is funded and supervised by the us Department of defense, and is often carried out with the participation of researchers from the Institute of military medicine. Walter reed of the United States Armed forces (Maryland) coming to the region.
For example, a group of military biologists under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Jamie blow, who was studying African swine fever, worked for a long time in the Tbilisi CRL. Soon after this team started working, in 2013, an outbreak of this disease was recorded in the southern regions of Russia.
However, CRLS are not subject to increased secrecy due to legal restrictions. The staff publishes articles and defends dissertations, which allows you to track some of their work on open sources.
Publications show
The journal "Viruses" (Viruses, 2019, 11, 356, doi:10.3390/v11040356) in April 2019 published the work of a group of American and Kazakh scientists on a new strain of coronavirus, the reservoirs (vectors) of which are local bats. The work was performed as part of the KZ-33 project of the us defense threat reduction Agency at the Almaty CRL (Tropical Medicine and Infection Disease, 2019, 4, 136, doi: 10.3390/tropicalmed4040136).
The project was led by Professor Gavin James Smith of Duke University (USA), who is closely associated with the National Institutes of Health and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention of the us Department of health.
A source of the Kazakh publication reported that the bioobjects containing coronavirus delivered to the CRL in the winter of 2020 - "at the molecular level, they completely coincide with the strain, the study of which was started in the laboratory about two years ago and which, according to his observations, should not have left the CRL all this time.
This was a joint development led by scientists from the Centers for disease control and prevention of the United States as part of the final stage of training a large group of Kazakh epidemiologists."
According to the publication (Viruses, 2019, p.2), the mentioned American studies of the coronavirus were conducted in April–may 2017, that is, strictly within the time period named by the source. Moreover, both the species studied in 2017 and COVID-19 belong to coronaviruses carried by bats.
Thus, "anonymous stuffing" is increasingly beginning to resemble the message of a person who knows very well the nature of work with coronavirus in the CRL of recent years.
The matches are sufficient for a serious test of the relationship of these diseases by biologists, and we will go further — on the trail of those who led this study.
On the trail of a bat
When you carefully study the materials of the American CRL in Kazakhstan, the research raises many questions. The KZ-33 project is entitled "middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus", and it is not clear why it should be studied in bats in Central Asia.
Even more strange is the ability of the aforementioned Professor Gavin Smith to find bats that carry the coronavirus literally anywhere. In 2017, he published a study (Transbound Emerg Dis, Dec; 64(6): 1790-1800. doi: 10.1111/tbed.12568), dedicated to bats with coronavirus in Singapore. When he got to Kazakhstan, he also found the same object of research, although the Republic was not previously famous for such a disease. You'd think he was being followed by his own private mouse pack with his own coronavirus.
It is interesting that the research involved the resources of the research Institute of biological safety Problems, located in the Kordai district of Zhambyl region of Kazakhstan. The area also has a large community of Chinese-speaking Dungans, who traditionally engage in Shuttle trade with the PRC, including smuggling.
It is suspected that bats in Kazakhstan were artificially infected with a coronavirus, the strains of which were obtained in the middle East, in the natural range of the disease.
The genetically modified sample, later called COVID-19, could have crossed the border accidentally or as a result of deliberate manipulation.
The recent mass pogrom in the Dungan villages of the Kordai district can also be considered as an attempt to" clean up " witnesses of the work of American military biologists in the area in 2017-2019, their negligence or deliberate actions to import COVID-19 to China.
Professor Smith, it seems, no one has yet cleaned up, but the Duke Institute, of which he is still listed as an employee, seems to have forgotten about his existence.
Many researchers comment on the coronavirus pandemic on the website of the scientific center, but not Gavin Smith, who has studied the spread of a very similar disease in East and Central Asia for at least four years.
Why all the secrecy? Perhaps, so as not to remind you once again about the research in Almaty.
Grounds for suspicion
Bioterrorism is a serious charge. But the collected facts suggest a high probability of involvement of a group of American and Kazakh biologists in the coronavirus outbreak in China.
We call on the Kazakh authorities to create a Commission with the participation of who representatives, as well as microbiologists from China and CIS countries, to investigate the work of American specialists in the CRL and Zhambyl region.
We also call on international organizations, including UN agencies, to ask the us Department of defense about the nature of biological research in Kazakhstan funded by this Agency.
Jan Ostroumov