RFK Jr.'s HHS Orders Lab Studying Deadly Infectious Diseases to Stop Research

[Nevilledog]

https://www.wired.com/story/hhs-niaid-irf-ebola-disease-research-stop/

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A research facility within the US National Institutes of Health that is tasked with studying Ebola and other deadly infectious diseases has been instructed by the Trump administration’s Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to stop research activities.

According to an email viewed by WIRED, the Integrated Research Facility in Frederick, Maryland was told to stop all experimental work by April 29 at 5 pm. The facility is part of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) and is located at the US Army base Fort Detrick. It conducts research on the treatment and prevention of infectious diseases that are deemed “high consequence”—those that pose significant risks to public health. It has 168 employees, including federal workers and contractors.

The email, sent by Michael Holbrook, associate director for high containment at the Integrated Research Facility, says the lab is terminating studies on Lassa fever, SARS-Cov-2, and Eastern equine encephalitis, or EEE, a rare but lethal mosquito-borne disease that has been reported in several Northern US states. “We are collecting as many samples as is reasonable to ensure these studies are of value,” he says in the email. “We have not been asked to euthanize any animals so these animals will continue to be managed.” Holbrook did not respond to an inquiry from WIRED.

The email says representatives from the Department of Homeland Security were padlocking freezers in BSL-4 labs, those with the highest level of biosafety containment used for studying highly dangerous microbes. Only about a dozen BSL-4 labs exist in North America. These labs work with the viruses that cause Ebola, Lassa fever, and Marburg, types of hemorrhagic fevers. The Integrated Research Facility is one of few places in the world that is able to perform medical imaging on animals infected with BSL-4 agents.

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[sakabatou]

1. Junior would let the Black Death or the Spanish Flu take its course

[Irish_Dem]

2. Trump's eugenics program. Kill off the weak, old, infirm.

Only the strong should survive.

[RockCreek]

17. let Trump - old, weak, and infirm- be the first to go.

If only....

[Irish_Dem]

18. We are learning the meaning of the saying: Only the good die young.

[Ocelot II]

3. What next? Cholera? Bubonic plague?

[TommyT139]

4. Holy crap. Someone please double check on

...your browser. I recalled a recent Marburg outbreak, and wanted to check dates. So I went to my browser and typed in marburg outbreak (no quotes).

The search results / preview page showed in several entries from CDC.gov that an outbreak was in Tanzania in January. But when I went to the live version of the page, there was no mention of the January outbreak.

I don't know how to post pics here. Can someone please check - is this true on other search engines???

Like, ok, try to erase the existence of trans people (good luck with that!)...but delete a recent outbreak of a deadly disease, wtf.

[Ocelot II]

9. I got this:

https://www.cdc.gov/marburg/situation-summary/index.html

[TommyT139]

16. Thank you - so post-inauguration info is gone.

Must have been the divine golden effulgence of his trumpitude that drove away the virus. Yeah, that's it.

[Silent Type]

5. With trump's henchmen and lackies in control, it might be a good idea to lock such labs down.

Take nukes away from them too. Don’t trust these MFers for chit.

[Meowmee]

6. More make america dead from psycho rfk jr.

[Solly Mack]

7. ...

[Cha]

8. That's what Putin wants for America... Do they Research

Deadly diseases in Russia?

[littlemissmartypants]

10. Yes ...but probably to make bio weapons..

I'm so glad my life is more than half over. I'd make a great kamikaze at this point.

[Karch]

11. It sounds like

the beginning of a dystopian nightmare.

[littlemissmartypants]

13. Where do you think Bashar al-Assad got his stash?

[Cha]

15. I want to live longer For the ending of this

Fascist Takeover of America by the Putin Mump Cult.



Hang in There, pants💜

[Karasu]

12. And this shit is supposed to "MAHA" how, exactly? Though I guess it will in the sense that no one will have to

worry about their health once we're all dead from perfectly preventable diseases.

RFK's appointment alone is reason enough for anyone who has the ability and values their health to leave this country IMO.

[Hekate]

14. The next time some tinfoil hatted person says "It escaped from a lab" ...

I’m going to look for one of my own.