'Shock after shock': A visit to China's secret biolab in California

https://lemmy.world/post/9390965

'Shock after shock': A visit to China's secret biolab in California - Lemmy.World

There was blood and other bodily fluids in Gatorade bottles labeled in Mandarin, samples of at least 20 potentially infectious agents including malaria, dengue fever, and COVID-19 — and a pungent odor from what turned out to be nearly 1,000 mice.

I’m more shocked this is AOL.com
There are still people that use AOL email addresses
And they should schedule a colonoscopy.
I don’t know what the actual number is, but I’ll bet the amount of people still unknowingly paying for America Online dial-up service is shocking.

It’s an old AF news and Scripps News is the one doing the reporting, AOL, like MSN and Yahoo, and the Hill, just rehosts “news” articles, they have no actual journalists on staff, just “news” outlets that pay them to be on their front page.

Also this place wasn’t a “Wuhan lab” it was a medical test manufacturer that also had a shitload of bio waste onsite that needs to be cleaned up as it’s a threat to public health.

Almost a month ago that charges were brought up. Interesting that this article from 3 days ago is claiming so many unknowns and mystery about this facility since it’s really old news and most of those questions have been answered:

justice.gov/…/operator-central-california-bio-lab…

The original discovery was made 4.5 months ago:

nbcnews.com/…/officials-believe-fresno-warehouse-…

Edit: This might be the original news source that broke the story:

midvalleytimes.com/…/investigation-on-reedley-bui…

Operator of Central California Bio-Lab Indicted for Distributing Adulterated and Misbranded COVID-19 Tests and Lying to Authorities

A federal grand jury returned a three-count indictment today against Jia Bei Zhu, aka Jesse Zhu, Qiang He, and David He, 62, a citizen of China who formerly resided in Clovis, charging him with distributing adulterated and misbranded medical devices in violation of the federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act and for making false statements to the Food and Drug Administration.

Yeah it definitely comes across as clickbait for the tinfoil hats.

It definitely is. They go out of their way to avoid mentioning that they discovered they were making testing kits for various infectious diseases (which explains why you’d want samples of said diseases).

This information was in the original report that broke the story and the in the charging report:

justice.gov/…/arrest-made-central-california-bio-…

According to court documents, between December 2020 and March 2023, Zhu and others manufactured, imported, sold, and distributed hundreds of thousands of COVID-19 test kits, in addition to test kits for HIV, pregnancy, clinical urinalysis, and other conditions in the United States and China.

As I mentioned in a comment below, the word “test” appears nowhere in the “Scripps News” report.

Arrest Made in Central California Bio-Lab Investigation

Jia Bei Zhu, aka Jesse Zhu, aka Qiang He, aka David He, 62, a citizen of China who formerly resided in Clovis, was arrested today on a criminal complaint for manufacturing and distributing misbranded medical devices in violation of the federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FDCA) and for making false statements to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).