{"id":1762151,"date":"2022-12-04T09:35:36","date_gmt":"2022-12-04T14:35:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1762151"},"modified":"2022-12-04T10:07:48","modified_gmt":"2022-12-04T15:07:48","slug":"scientist-who-worked-at-wuhan-lab-says-covid-is-man-made","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/scientist-who-worked-at-wuhan-lab-says-covid-is-man-made\/","title":{"rendered":"Scientist Who Worked at Wuhan Lab Says COVID Is Man Made"},"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\">22<\/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%2Fscientist-who-worked-at-wuhan-lab-says-covid-is-man-made%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=1762151&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--><p>A scientist who worked at a controversial research lab in China has claimed that COVID was a man-made virus that leaked from the facility, according to a report.<\/p>\n<p>Andrew Huff, who worked for a New York-based non-profit that studied viruses, said COVID leaked from the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China\u00a0two-plus\u00a0years ago and blamed authorities for the \u201cbiggest US intelligence failure since 9\/11,\u201d Britain\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/news\/20543847\/wuhan-lab-warning-covid-lab-leak\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Sun reported Saturday.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The lab has been at the center of fierce debates about the origins of COVID, with both Chinese government officials and lab personnel denying that the virus leaked from the facility.<\/p>\n<p>Huff, an epidemiologist, said in his new book,\u00a0\u201cThe Truth About Wuhan,\u201d\u00a0that the pandemic was the result of the US government\u2019s funding of coronaviruses in China.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/scientist-says-covid-man-made-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-24884332\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/scientist-says-covid-man-made-2.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/scientist-says-covid-man-made-2.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1536 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/scientist-says-covid-man-made-2.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1152 1152w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/scientist-says-covid-man-made-2.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=768 768w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/scientist-says-covid-man-made-2.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=384 384w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/scientist-says-covid-man-made-2.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w\" alt=\"A picture of scientist Andrew Huff.\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Scientist Andrew Huff said COVID leaked from the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China two years ago.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">AndrewHuff.com<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>He said that China\u2019s gain-of-function experiments were carried out with lax security, which led to a leak at the Wuhan lab.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cForeign laboratories did not have the adequate control measures in place for ensuring proper biosafety, biosecurity, and risk management, ultimately resulting in the lab leak at the Wuhan Institute of Virology,\u201d he said in his book, which was exclusively excerpted in the newspaper.<\/p>\n<p>Over the last two years,<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/10\/29\/new-report-supports-claim-covid-19-came-from-wuhan-lab\/\">\u00a0increasing evidence<\/a>\u00a0has suggested that the virus was\u00a0leaked from the lab.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/scientist-says-covid-man-made-4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-24884309\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/scientist-says-covid-man-made-4.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/scientist-says-covid-man-made-4.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/scientist-says-covid-man-made-4.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/scientist-says-covid-man-made-4.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" alt=\"An aerial picture of the Wuhan Institute of Virology in Wuhan, China.\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" \/><\/a><figcaption>A scientist who worked at a research lab in China has claimed that COVID was a man-made virus that leaked from the facility.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">AFP via Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Some experts believe that the virus could have escaped through an infected scientist or the improper disposal of waste from the facility. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the head of the World Health Organization, told a European politician that he feared that the virus escaped from the lab in \u201ca catastrophic accident\u201d in 2019, according to a report in the Daily Mail earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p>Huff is a former vice president of EcoHealth Alliance, a New York-based non-profit that studies infectious diseases. The group has been studying different coronaviruses in bats for more than a decade with funding from the National Institutes of Health, and had forged close ties to the Wuhan lab.<\/p>\n<p>Huff, who worked at EcoHealth Alliance from 2014 to 2016, said that the non-profit helped the Wuhan lab put together the \u201cbest existing methods to engineer bat coronaviruses to attack other species\u201d for many years.<\/p>\n<div class=\"inline-slideshow\" data-component=\"inlineSlideshow\">\n<div class=\"inline-slideshow__header\">\n<p><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Previous<\/span><\/p>\n<p>1 of 2<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Next<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"inline-slideshow__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"inline-slideshow__slides\">\n<div class=\"inline-slideshow__slide\">\n<figure class=\"inline-slideshow__slide-figure\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"inline-slideshow__image\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/scientist-says-covid-man-made-5.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=878\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/scientist-says-covid-man-made-5.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1756 1756w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/scientist-says-covid-man-made-5.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1317 1317w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/scientist-says-covid-man-made-5.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=878 878w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/scientist-says-covid-man-made-5.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=439 439w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/scientist-says-covid-man-made-5.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w\" alt=\"Virologists work in the P4 lab of the Wuhan Institute of Virology in Wuhan, China.\" width=\"878\" height=\"584\" \/><figcaption class=\"meta meta--caption\">Virologists work in the P4 lab of the Wuhan Institute of Virology in Wuhan, China.<\/figcaption><span class=\"inline-slideshow__credit meta meta--byline\">Future Publishing via Getty Images<\/span><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"inline-slideshow__slide\">\n<figure class=\"inline-slideshow__slide-figure\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"inline-slideshow__image\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/scientist-says-covid-man-made-1.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=393\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/scientist-says-covid-man-made-1.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=786 786w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/scientist-says-covid-man-made-1.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=590 589w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/scientist-says-covid-man-made-1.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=393 393w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/scientist-says-covid-man-made-1.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=197 196w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/12\/scientist-says-covid-man-made-1.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w\" alt=\"A picture of the cover of a book written by Dr. Andrew Huff.\" width=\"393\" height=\"589\" \/><figcaption class=\"meta meta--caption\">&#8220;Foreign laboratories did not have the adequate control measures in place for ensuring proper biosafety, biosecurity, and risk management&#8230;&#8221; Dr. Huff wrote in his book.<\/figcaption><span class=\"inline-slideshow__credit meta meta--byline\">Amazon<\/span><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cChina knew from day one that this was a genetically engineered agent,\u201d Huff wrote. \u201cThe US government is to blame for the transfer of dangerous biotechnology to the Chinese.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was terrified by what I saw,\u201d the army veteran from Michigan told The Sun. \u201cWe were just handing\u00a0them bioweapon technology.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Wuhan Institute of Virology, a state-run and funded research facility home to China\u2019s riskiest coronavirus research, has been under immense pressure by the ruling Chinese Communist Party to produce scientific breakthroughs to raise China\u2019s global status despite lacking resources, according to a recent investigation published by ProPublica\/Vanity Fair.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A scientist who worked at a controversial research lab in China has claimed that COVID was a man-made virus that leaked from the facility, according to a report. 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