Secret Biolab Linked to China

CALIFORNIA—A secret Chinese-owned biolab with thousands of vials of bacterial and viral agents, including chlamydia, E. Coli, streptococcus pneumonia, HIV, hepatitis, herpes, rubella, and malaria uncovered in California has raised serious concerns about biosecurity.

Investigations involving the city, county, state, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and FBI have alarmed residents in this small California city about 25 miles southeast of Fresno.

The lab, at 850 I Street, was operated by Prestige Biotech, Inc., which is believed to produce COVID-19 and pregnancy test kits, and housed nearly 1,000 lab mice.

Jesalyn Harper, a code enforcement officer for the City of Reedley Fire Department, told The Epoch Times she made an initial inspection of the suspicious lab after receiving an anonymous complaint about a possible business operating in the warehouse which was believed to be vacant at the time.

In addition to medical devices such as COVID-19 and pregnancy tests, “certain rooms of the warehouse were found to contain several vessels of liquid and various apparatus,” court documents said. “Fresno County Public Health staff also observed blood, tissue and other bodily fluid samples and serums; and thousands of vials of unlabeled fluids and suspected biological material.”

After testing the substances, the CDC detected at least 20 infectious agents, including coronavirus, HIV, malaria, hepatitis, and herpes. (Excerpt from The Epoch Times.)