NIH Emails Reveal ‘Serious Concerns’ About Wuhan In 2017

This photo taken on August 4, 2021 shows laboratory technicians wearing personal protective equipment (PPE) working on samples to be tested for the Covid-19 coronavirus at the Fire Eye laboratory, a Covid-19 testing facility, in Wuhan in China's central Hubei province. - China OUT (Photo by STR / AFP) / China OUT (Photo by STR/AFP via Getty Images)
This photo taken on August 4, 2021 shows laboratory technicians wearing personal protective equipment (PPE) working on samples to be tested for the Covid-19 coronavirus at the Fire Eye laboratory, a Covid-19 testing facility, in Wuhan in China’s central Hubei province. – China OUT (Photo by STR/AFP via Getty Images)

OAN’s Zach Petersen
5:27 PM – Wednesday, November 29, 2023

Newly uncovered emails reveal that a United States health official tried to warn the NIH about serious safety issues at the Wuhan lab prior to the COVID-19 pandemic. These emails date all the way back to 2017.

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While touring the Wuhan lab just before its opening six years ago, the unnamed NIH worker found that scientists considered reverse engineering the Ebola virus.

The NIAID employee sent emails to colleagues writing about her worries of divulging the Ebola detail.

“I don’t want the information particularly using reverse genetics to create viruses to get out,” she wrote. “I was shocked to hear what [the WIV technician] said [about reverse engineering Ebola]. I also worry the reaction of people in Washington when they read this. I don’t feel comfortable for broader audience within the government circle. It could be very sensitive.”

In response, F. Gray Handley, the NIAID’s associate director for international research affairs responded to the email in agreeance. She was told to delete any information about engineering the Ebola Virus from her report.

“As we discussed. Delete that comment,” he wrote.

An NIH spokesperson explained that the official ‘took appropriate steps to ensure that officials at NIAID, HHS, and US Embassy Beijing were aware of the technician’s comment [regarding Ebola research] via her report on the visit.’

It is widely believed that the Coronavirus leaked from that very same lab several years later.

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