SEATTLE, July 26, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Physician-Scientist
Steven Quay and a group of
international scientists have published a pre-print, available
here, entitled, "CONTAMINATION OR VACCINE RESEARCH? RNA Sequencing
data of early COVID-19 patient samples show abnormal presence of
vectorized H7N9 hemagglutinin segment." In the paper, a forensic
examination of the sequencing data from five COVID-19 bronchial
lavage patient specimens reveals that the laboratory at the Wuhan
Institute of Virology (WIV) was contaminated with a wide range of
viruses, including Nipah virus genes in a cloning vector. Nipah is
a BSL-4 pathogen with a lethality of 50% to 92%. A video summary of
the paper can be found here.
The highlights of the paper are:
- Five patient specimens were sequenced by the WIV in
December 2019 and were part of an
early report on SARS-CoV-2 published by Dr. Zhengli Shi and
colleagues (Nature 579, 270–273 (2020). This paper has been viewed
over one million times, making it one of the most highly read
papers on the pandemic virus.
- The most abundant contaminant is an undisclosed H7N9 influenza
vaccine, which in one specimen is over six-times as abundant as
SARS-CoV-2.
- The Nipah virus gene sequences were found in infectious cloning
vectors of the type used for genetic manipulation.
- Nineteen other contaminants, including Japanese Encephalitis
virus, HIV, human T-cell leukemia virus, and hepatitis delta virus
were found.
"It was surprising to find a menagerie of deadly viruses,
strange pathogens, and even honeysuckle, plant genes in patient
specimens sequenced at the WIV in December
2019, especially since this patient sequencing data has been
publicly available to the entire scientific community inside of the
US NIH GenBank database since February
2020," stated Dr. Steven
Quay, MD, PhD. "The apparent widespread contamination of the
laboratory at the very time the pandemic was just beginning is of
course worrisome. But more important is getting answers to these
questions: Why do these patient specimens contain an unreported
influenza vaccine? What was the purpose of creating an undisclosed,
apparently infectious clone of the deadly Nipah virus? Is this
Nipah research part of another gain-of-function research project at
the Wuhan Institute of Virology?"
About the Nipah Virus
Nipah virus, scientific name
Nipah henipavirus, is a bat-borne virus that causes an
infection in humans and other animals, with a high mortality rate.
Numerous disease outbreaks caused by Nipah virus have occurred in
South and Southeast Asia. Symptoms
from infection vary from none to fever, cough, headache, shortness
of breath, and confusion. This may worsen into a coma over a day or
two, and 50% to 92% of those infected die. Complications can
include inflammation of the brain and seizures following recovery.
At this time there is no specific treatment for Nipah virus
infection nor is there a vaccine..
About Steven Quay, M.D.,
Ph.D.
Dr. Steven Quay has
over 360 published contributions to medicine and has been cited
over 10,500 times, placing him in the top 1% of scientists
worldwide. He holds 87 US patents and has invented seven
FDA-approved pharmaceuticals which have been prescribed to over 80
million people. He is the author of the best-selling book on
surviving the pandemic, Stay Safe: A Physician's Guide to Survive
Coronavirus. He is the CEO of Atossa Therapeutics Inc. (Nasdaq:
ATOS), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company developing novel
therapeutics for oncology and infectious diseases.
He received his M.D. and Ph.D. from The University of Michigan, was a postdoctoral fellow
in the Chemistry Department at MIT with
Nobel Laureate H. Gobind Khorana, a
resident at the Harvard-MGH Hospital, and spent almost a decade on
the faculty of Stanford University
School of Medicine. A TEDx talk he delivered on breast cancer
prevention has been viewed over 220,000 times. His scientific
manuscript entitled, "A Bayesian analysis concludes beyond a
reasonable doubt that SARS-CoV-2 is not a natural zoonosis but
instead is laboratory derived," has been viewed over 175,000-times.
For more information, visit www.DrQuay.com
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