Concerns Emerge: China Testing Potentially Dangerous Covid-Like Virus

According to a report circulating in a pre-peer-reviewed journal article database, China has allegedly been conducting experiments involving a new virus that shares similarities with Covid and has a 100 percent fatality rate in mice, raising concerns about its potential impact on humans.

The paper, published on the bioRxiv website on January 3, details that Chinese military-trained doctors created their version of the “pangolin coronavirus” and exposed a group of mice to the virus to observe the outcomes.

Surprisingly, all the mice that were infected with the live virus succumbed to the infection within 7-8 days post-inoculation, while the control group remained uninfected.

The infected mice exhibited symptoms such as weight loss within five days, sluggishness, and white eyes by the seventh day. The researchers noted that the virus had not only spread throughout the mice’s bodies but had also reached critical organs like the brain, eyes, and lungs.

The study suggests that severe brain infection during the later stages of the infection may be the primary cause of death in these mice. The researchers also raised concerns about the potential for this virus, referred to as GX_P2V, to jump to humans, given its high lethality in mice.

This report comes amid warnings from Chinese authorities about a possible resurgence of Covid driven by the JN.1 subvariant. The National Health Commission (NHC) in China emphasized the increasing presence of JN.1 and the likelihood of multiple respiratory diseases spreading during the winter and spring seasons. Influenza viruses are expected to remain dominant, and the rise of JN.1 is attributed to factors such as imported cases, reduced influenza rates, and declining population immunity.