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A new taxpayer-funded lab is being built in Colorado that will import bats from around the world and experiment on dangerous diseases, DailyMail.com can reveal.
The multi-million-dollar project is a collaboration between Dr Anthony Fauci’s old department at the National Institutes of Health, Colorado State University (CSU) and Eco Health Alliance (EHA), a controversial research group at the center of the Covid lab leak theory.
Proposals seen by this website show how the 14,000-sq-ft facility could store and study some of the most transmissible pathogens on the planet – including Ebola, Nipah virus and Covid-19.
Researchers supporting the project claim the lab will boost America’s “ability to study the role of bats in disease transmission and help us become even stronger in researching emerging zoonotic pathogens.”
Construction on the facility has not started yet, but the lab is to be built on the CSU’s Foothill Campus campus in Fort Collins, and is scheduled to be up and running by September 2025.
The project currently has a budget of nearly $12 million.
Republican senators are sounding the alarm, saying they are concerned the facility could start a pandemic on U.S. soil. Local residents in Fort Collins are also voicing their concerns.
“A document submitted by CSU researchers in December 2022 states: ‘We will infect horseshoe bats with SARS-CoV2 and a SARSr-CoV detected in these bats,’” the Daily Mail wrote.
The White Coat Waste Project shared a link to the report and wrote, “NIH, DOD, NSF & other agencies are paying the disgraced EcoHealth Alliance to import bats from Asia & set up a new bat colony & deadly virus lab in Colorado.”