Former White House coronavirus advisor Dr. Anthony Fauci has certainly offered some illuminating information during recent congressional hearings.
Mary Chastain recently covered Fauci’s testimony that there was no science behind either pandemic policy recommendations regarding masking or social distancing.
Now a congressional report has revealed that Fauci’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) deceived Congress over its plans to create a Frankenstein monkeypox virus that had pandemic potential.
The blueprint to create a mutant Mpox virus raised major concerns among experts and led to an investigation by the House Energy and Commerce Committee, which released the results from its year-and-a-half probe this week.The report said the HHS, NIAID and NIH repeatedly ‘obstructed and misled the committee’ about whether the risky experiments had been approved and conducted, describing their cooperation with the probe as ‘unacceptable and potentially criminal.’Investigators added: ‘HHS and the NIH repeatedly told the Committee the… experiments had not been “formally proposed” or “planned,” had never been approved or conducted, and were not currently under consideration.'[These] repeated assertions were false.’They also said NIAID, a branch of the NIH, should not be trusted to carry out this type of research: ‘The primary conclusion drawn at this point in the investigation is that NIAID cannot be trusted to oversee its own research of pathogens responsibly.
Legal Insurrection readers may recall my previous discussions on the types of monkeypox strains. Clade I causes severe illness and has killed up to 11 percent of people in previous outbreaks, which has been reported in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Clad II, which is the type that caused the global outbreak in 2022, is more transmissible but less severe and nearly 100 percent of people survive.
You won’t believe what some scientists proposed to do.
In October 2022, a team of government scientists wanted to insert genes from the more dangerous Clade I Mpox into Clade II, making a hybrid strain that could have been both more lethal and more contagious.Investigators said this would be classified as gain-of-function, which is research that can result in deadlier and more transmissible viruses and is feared to be behind the creation of Covid.It was estimated the new Mpox virus would have had a fatality rate of up to 15 percent and a reproductive rate of 2.4, meaning one sick person could infect more than two other people.At this rate, the hybrid strain would have had pandemic potential.
The real question is whether scientists have actually completed these experiments.
Disturbingly, news is now breaking about a mutant variant, clade 1b, which is described as “undoubtedly the most dangerous strain of mpox yet.”
First identified in February in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), the virus is behaving “extremely” differently to clades 1 and 2 of mpox – the latter of which exploded internationally in 2022, primarily amongst gay men.The new strain of the virus does not require sexual contact to spread.On a Zoom call with journalists on Tuesday, the researchers confirmed that clade 1b is spreading through touch, something which is “incredibly worrying,” according to Prof Lang.It was spreading mother to child, as well as in schools and workplaces, they said.Presentation of the diseases also differs markedly from previous stains.The virus had caused an “alarming” number of miscarriages in young women, said the researchers, and the lesions and blistering it causes were spread across the entire body, rather than confined to the genital area.
This is the same strain I reported on in April. It appears that there has been no let-up in the infections, and officials continue to monitor the outbreak. Cases have been reported in cities bordering the Democratic Republic of Congo, Rwanda, Burundi, and Uganda.
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