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Leading Israeli Government Biowarfare Expert Says Boston University Creation of 80% Kill Rate in Mice Virus “Should Be Totally Forbidden”
Received Fauci NIAID Funding The founder and head of the Department of Military Medicine of the Hebrew University Faculty of Medicine and IDF Medical Corps, and Director-General of the Israeli gove…
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The founder and head of the Department of Military Medicine of the Hebrew University Faculty of Medicine and IDF Medical Corps, and Director-General of the Israeli government’s Israel Institute for Biological Research (IIBR) from 2013 to 2021, has doubled down on his remarks that recently reported research at Boston University, which has created a man-made virus with an 80% kill rate in mice, constitutes “playing with fire” and “should be totally forbidden.”Professor Shmuel Shapira, MD, is also a Senior Research Fellow at the International Institute for Counter-Terrorism (ICT) at Reichman University in Israel. He is a full colonel in the Israeli Defense Forces.
According to the US Department of Defense website affiliated with the US Military Academy (West Point,) the IIBR “researches all areas of defense against chemical and biological threats, including the operation of national laboratories for detection and identification of such threats,”
On Monday the UK Daily Mail ignited a firestorm in the media which sought to downplay the significance of its report featuring exclusive interviews with experts, “Experts slam Boston lab where scientists have created a new deadly Covid, strain with an 80% kill rate.”
The report quoted Dr Richard Ebright, a chemist at Rutgers University, declaring:
“The research is a clear example of gain of function research.“
Prof David Livermore, a professor of microbiology at the UK’s University of East Anglia said to the Daily Mail:
“given the strong likelihood that the Covid pandemic originated from the escape of a lab-manipulated coronavirus in Wuhan, these experiments seem profoundly unwise….“
Soon the Boston Herald rode to the rescue of BU, with its tepid headline “Boston University COVID researchers combine omicron spike protein with original virus, test strain on mice.“
The Herald obligingly reported, without including the contrary opinion which sparked the controversy in the first place:
“First, this research is not gain-of-function research, meaning it did not amplify the Washington state SARS-COV-2 virus strain (original virus from 2020) or make it more dangerous,” BU said in a statement following online reports that the university called “false and inaccurate.”
Dr. Shapira, however, had taken to Twitter to underscore what he had said. leaving no possibility that it was merely an off-the-cuff remark.
- Most remarkably of all, the funding acknowledgements of the BU study show that, once again, unfazed by a DOJ investigation, Fauci approved funding for the appallingly dangerous experiment, according to Dr. Shapira. Page 21 pre-print study reads: “This work was supported by Boston University startup funds (to MS and FD), National Institutes of Health, NIAID grants R01 AI159945 (to SB and MS) and R37 AI087846 (to MUG), NIH SIG grants S10-439 OD026983 and SS10-OD030269 (to NAC).”
