According to Daily Mail, U.S. lawmakers are demanding answers about a $1 million collaboration between the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the CCP-run Chinese Academy of Sciences to make bird flu viruses more dangerous to people.
American taxpayers are footing the bill for the project, the outlet reports.
“This research, funded by American taxpayers, could potentially generate dangerous new lab-created virus strains that threaten our national security and public health,” a bipartisan group of Congress members wrote in a letter to USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack.
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“Earlier this year it was revealed the United States government was funneling $1 million to China to see if scientists could make ‘highly pathogenic avian influenza’ more contagious to mammals using gain-of-function research. The research involves infecting ducks and
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