Inside NIH virus lab in Montana – that has eerie ties to Wuhan

• Photos obtained by watchdog group show experiments carried out on animals
• NIH lab in Montana previously found to have conducted experiments on SARS
• Exposure: NIH lab experimented with coronavirus from Wuhan in 2018

Photos and videos obtained exclusively by DailyMail.com show U.S. government-funded researchers conducting animal experiments at a controversial lab in Montana where high-risk virus research is conducted. You can see it happening.

Images and video footage obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request and shared exclusively on this website show researchers sedating and administering injections to monkeys and pigs, as well as small, unsanitary cages. This video shows a piglet being placed in a cage.

Although there is no suggestion that these videos show illegal activity, they offer an eerie glimpse into what goes on at the National Institutes of Health's Rocky Mountain Laboratory (RML), which has come under intense scrutiny in recent months. be able to.

Last year, the website revealed that RML in Montana had been experimenting with a SARS-like virus a year before the coronavirus pandemic, and although that research was halted, it could spark a new pandemic. Current projects involving potentially other deadly pathogens are still in progress. Go to the laboratory.

These include injecting pigs with Ebola, infecting monkeys with the coronavirus, and how monkeys react to hemorrhagic fever, which involves vomiting blood, internal bleeding, and bleeding in the brain, eyes, nose, and mouth. This includes researching.

The footage was obtained through a FOIA request by the White Coat Waste Project (WCW), which works against dangerous virus research and cruel animal testing.

It was first revealed that RML was experimenting with deadly pathogens in the first batch of WCW documents provided to this website last year.

Previous WCW documents show that in 2018, NIH researchers tested bats at the Rocky Mountain Institute with “SARS-like viruses'' as part of a collaboration with the Wuhan Institute of Virology, which is at the center of the coronavirus cover-up scandal. It was revealed that he had been infected with the virus.

They say U.S. taxpayer money was used to experiment with the coronavirus from a Chinese lab believed to be the origin of the coronavirus pandemic more than a year before the global outbreak. It revealed that.

The NIH, under the direction of Dr. Anthony Fauci, infected 12 Egyptian flying foxes at RML with a “SARS-like” virus called WIV1.

The WIV1-coronavirus was shipped from a lab in Wuhan, where the FBI believes it started the coronavirus pandemic, and was tested in bats obtained from a “roadside” zoo in Maryland.

of the study It has determined that the new virus does not have the potential to cause a “virulent infectious disease,” but this is further evidence of the U.S. government's relationship with the Wuhan lab and its funding of dangerous virus research around the world. I concluded that this was evidence.

Following WCW's investigation and DailyMail.com's reporting, Republican Sens. Joni Ernst (Iowa) and Eric Schmidt (Missouri) sent a letter to the NIH stating that RML scientists demanded to “learn more about potentially dangerous research”.

Most recently, Sen Ernst, along with Rep. Mike Gallagher, wrote another letter to the Pentagon asking for a review of the $50 million in grants the U.S. is sending to Chinese pandemic research institutes, including one based in Wuhan. demanded.

“Taxpayers have a right to know how much of their money is going to China and why the U.S. government continues to collect and create deadly superviruses,” the senator said in a statement. “This could also pose a threat to our national security.”

Although research on the “SARS-like” virus has stopped, current projects involving other deadly pathogens that could cause new pandemics are still being carried out in the lab.

As part of WCW's current lawsuit, the NIH was forced to send group records of experiments conducted at RML.

According to documents, NIH scientists will conduct a project that will run from September 2018 to 2019 to test piglets as young as two to three weeks old, which can cause Ebola hemorrhagic fever with a mortality rate of up to 90 percent. It was revealed that the virus was proposed to be infected with the Reston virus (REBOV), a family of sexually transmitted pathogens. 2017 and 2020.

This project “The role of arterivirus co-infection in the pathogenesis of Reston Ebola virus in pigs” examines how co-infection with porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome (PRRS) and REBOV increases the transmissibility and severity of the virus. It was to do.

The experiment was to be carried out in two parts: first, the pigs were infected with REBOV through their noses, as seen in the photo.

Between days 3 and 5 to 10 post-inoculation, four animals were to be euthanized for necropsy.

The remaining animals were to be euthanized on day 28. The researchers then proposed inoculating the pigs with PRRSV and REBOV after a few days, observing their behavior, taking vitals, and euthanizing them on day 28.

Although the experimental “manipulation” was to be carried out while the pigs were under anesthesia, the researchers noted that “we are evaluating these animals as potential models of disease progression, so “We cannot alleviate the symptoms of this.”

Symptoms of these illnesses include fever, difficulty breathing, weight loss, diarrhea, excessive or internal bleeding, coughing or vomiting blood, and neurological damage that can lead to death.

The researchers wrote: “Illness experienced by animals exposed to these viruses should not be treated with analgesics, as treatment would impede the study of disease expression and the ultimate outcome of infection.” said.

In additional documents obtained by WCW, scientists say that from 2019 to 2022, non-human primates will be tested for ticks that can cause life-threatening fevers, muscle and joint pain, and liver and liver problems. He is proposing an experiment in which monkeys are infected with Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever, a vector virus. Kidney or lung failure.

The proposal states, “In previous studies, decreased movement within the cage and edema were evaluated as an animal score, but in rare cases, it was found to be severe enough to impair the function of internal organs such as the lungs and intestines.'' There was also.''

“The purpose of this study was to evaluate the efficacy of a DNA vaccine candidate against CCHFV, and included the necessary unrelated DNA control group, so that some animals or animals may develop clinical symptoms and cause pain. It is expected that they may suffer from pain and suffering.

“Illness experienced by animals exposed to CCHFV should not be treated with analgesics, as treatment may interfere with disease development or vaccination results.”

The third proposal for experiments from 2020 to 2023 was titled “Development of a non-human primate model for the novel coronavirus originating in Wuhan, China.”

The aim was to evaluate up to three non-human primate species as potential animal models for Covid-19. For each species, one group of eight animals will be inoculated with a high dose of the virus through the eyes, nose, or mouth, as seen in the photo.

The primates were examined and vitals taken, and four were scheduled to be euthanized on the third day. The rest were to monitor the progression of the disease.

“Infection with 2019-nCoV can cause mild to severe disease in non-human primates,” the proposal states. Signs of illness include fever, fatigue, fatigue cough, and heavy breathing that can cause acute respiratory distress. Infection can be fatal.

“However, this study cannot alleviate symptoms of disease that may be associated with 2019-nCoV infection, as treatment would interfere with the study's results.”

Justin Goodman, executive vice president of the White Coat Waste Project, told DailyMail.com: “Our successful lawsuit has broken the veil of secrecy regarding the NIH's dangerous, wasteful, cruel and maximally painful animal experiments using biological agents that are up to 100 percent lethal” in humans.

“We have learned how NIH gain-of-function researchers associated with EcoHealth and the Wuhan lab imported primates from Fauci's Monkey Island, South Carolina, to the Rocky Mountain Research Institute, where they were able to transport Ebola and the novel coronavirus. It was revealed that the animals were infected with viruses such as, and then completely withheld painkillers.''Meanwhile, the animals suffer an excruciating death.

“Taxpayers have a right to know how their money is being spent in barbaric NIH animal laboratories that have the potential to cause catastrophic lab leaks and pandemics here in the United States.”