Chinese city about 650 miles south of Beijing that has a population of more than 11 million people. ” This tale has been officially repor ted as early as January 9th by CCP’ s state-owned and operated news channel, Xinhuanet,

New-type coronavirus causes pneumonia in Wuhan : exper t

, reported by local Chinese authorities to the US National Library of Medicine database,

Outbreak of Pneumonia of Unknown Etiology in Wuhan China: the Mystery and the Miracle

and to the International Journal of Infectious Diseases database,

Th e continuing 2019-nCoV epidemic threat of novel coronaviruses to global health — The latest 2019 novel coronavirus outbreak in Wuhan, China

. Typically not included in most mainstream news stories, however, is the fact that the claimed epicenter of th e outbreak is just 8. 6 miles from Wuhan Institute of Virology , which houses C hina’ s only P4-L evel Biosafety Laboratory capable of storing, studying, or engineering Pathogen Level 4 microbes such as other coronaviruses, Ebola, Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome, SARS, H5N1 influenza virus, Japanese encephalitis, and dengue. Bill Gurtz of the

Washington Times

reports , “the deadly animal virus epidemic spreading globally may have originated in a Wuhan laboratory linked to Ch ina’ s covert biological weapons program, according to an Israeli biological warfare expert. ” The journalist st ates that an un named U.S. official reveal ed that false rumors have been circulating for weeks on the Chinese Inter net claiming the new coronavirus is “part of a U.S. conspiracy to spread germ weapons” — possibly preparing propaganda outlets to counter future charges the new virus escaped from one of Wuhan’ s civilian or defense research laboratories. The article refers to statements provided by Dany Shoham, a former

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