{"id":1741397,"date":"2022-11-16T15:31:30","date_gmt":"2022-11-16T20:31:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1741397"},"modified":"2022-11-16T15:48:33","modified_gmt":"2022-11-16T20:48:33","slug":"un-report-gain-of-function-research-increases-possibility-of-pandemics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/un-report-gain-of-function-research-increases-possibility-of-pandemics\/","title":{"rendered":"UN Report: Gain-Of-Function Research Increases Possibility Of Pandemics"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fun-report-gain-of-function-research-increases-possibility-of-pandemics%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1741397&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/IM.jpeg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>A United Nations report on COVID-19 admitted that gain-of-function research \u2013 which involves the manipulation of viruses to become deadlier to humans \u2013 can \u201cincrease the possibility of accidentally generating an outbreak or even a pandemic.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The 70-page <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unep.org\/resources\/report\/covid-19-warning-addressing-environmental-threats-and-risk-future-pandemics-asia\">report<\/a> from the United Nations Environmental Program (UNEP) follows scrutiny of <a href=\"https:\/\/thenationalpulse.com\/2021\/06\/07\/fauci-celebrates-end-of-gof-moratorium\/\">gain-of-function research<\/a> after revelations that the controversial research method was being used by scientists at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, which is believed to be the epicenter of COVID-19. Using taxpayer funds from Anthony Fauci\u2019s National Institutes of Health (NIH) agency, researchers from the Wuhan-based laboratory and the New York non-profit EcoHealth Alliance manipulated bat coronaviruses strikingly <a href=\"https:\/\/thenationalpulse.com\/2021\/05\/15\/wuhan-lab-erases-nih-ties-gof-research\/\">similar<\/a> to COVID-19 to become more lethal to humans.<\/p>\n<p>The report \u2013 \u201cCOVID-19, a <a href=\"https:\/\/wedocs.unep.org\/bitstream\/handle\/20.500.11822\/40871\/COVID-19_warning.pdf?sequence=1&#038;isAllowed=y\">Warning<\/a>: Addressing Environmental Threats and the Risk of Future Pandemics in Asia and the Pacific\u201d \u2013 provides\u00a010 recommendations to mitigate pandemic risks, including to \u201cbetter regulate or ban dangerous \u201cgain of function\u201d pathogen studies\u201d as its ninth suggestion.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDeliberately searching for wildlife viruses could paradoxically increase the possibility of accidentally generating an outbreak or even a pandemic, via accidental escape,\u201d begins the report.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGain of function experiments, intended to investigate disease-transmission characteristics, could inadvertently generate problems (Wain-Hobson 2013). Furthermore, trust is undermined when scientists overstate the benefits of disease prevention,\u201d it continues.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGain of function studies involve the manipulation of pathogens in attempts to explore characteristics, including transmission between species, that might not exist in nature. Although such studies are generally undertaken in laboratories with high security (Biosafety Level-4), the accidental escape of highly virulent pathogens has occurred many times from \u201csecure\u201d settings and could reoccur,\u201d explains the recommendation.<\/p>\n<p>In a section exploring how a string of Nipah virus outbreaks in 1998 occurred in Malaysia and Singapore, the UNEP report reiterates its call to potentially ban gain-of-function research:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cTo date, no vaccine for Nipah has been developed although progress has been reported. Thus, it is recommended that \u201cgain of function of concern\u201d research studies, and other experiments to explore the potential of Nipah for wider transmission be strictly regulated\u2014or even banned altogether.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Social media \u201cfact-checkers\u201d and corporate media outlines routinely dismissed criticism of gain-of-function research as \u201cconspiracy theories\u201d meant to attack Fauci and the Chinese Communist Party. Now, however, the UNEP appears to be confirming these fears.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A United Nations report on COVID-19 admitted that gain-of-function research \u2013 which involves the manipulation of viruses to become deadlier to humans \u2013 can \u201cincrease the possibility of accidentally generating<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1741400,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1741397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1741397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1741397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1741397\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1741400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1741397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1741397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1741397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}