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Offline TomSea

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What's this about? My jaw dropped hearing about this.
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A Chinese Biologist Carrying Suspected SARS And MERS Samples Attempted To Enter The US

Jason Hopkins   Immigration and politics reporter
March 31, 2020 2:15 PM ET

Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officials prevented a Chinese national from sneaking undeclared biological materials into the United States in late 2018, roughly one year before the COVID-19 pandemic broke out in the Chinese city of Wuhan.

An unnamed Chinese biologist carrying suspected vials of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) and Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) arrived at the Detroit Metro Airport in November 2018, according to an FBI tactical intelligence report obtained by Yahoo News.

The individual arrived at the airport carrying vials labeled “Antibodies” in his luggage, the report stated. When questioned by authorities, he claimed that a colleague in China requested the vials be delivered to a researcher at a U.S. institute.

Read more at: https://dailycaller.com/2020/03/31/chinese-biologist-sars-mers-cbp/

Moving to the Health forum, this is pretty darn bad, even if it happened November, 2018. That's no excuse.

This happened in 2018 actually, hmmn?   :pondering:
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If one reads the article, further down,

"The Chinese scientists intercepted at the Detroit Metro Airport was not isolated case. The FBI report, which addressed security risks of foreign researchers in the United States, cited two other incidents when Chinese nationals attempted to enter the U.S. with undeclared flu samples and suspected E. coli."

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If one reads the article, further down,

"The Chinese scientists intercepted at the Detroit Metro Airport was not isolated case. The FBI report, which addressed security risks of foreign researchers in the United States, cited two other incidents when Chinese nationals attempted to enter the U.S. with undeclared flu samples and suspected E. coli."

Well, I think this speaks volumes and I imagine the same thing happened in Italy.

The virus was released on China's own, to reduce population.
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