Covert Pathogen Watch · 2026-05-27 Daily Digest
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Federal prosecutors dismissed the firearm charge against Ori Solomon, property manager of the Las Vegas home tied to the Reedley network, after...
A recent University of Maryland lecture by Yale's Reshma Ramachandran examined the implications for patients and public health from FDA's curtailed authority to regulate lab-developed tests.
The 2014 West Africa Ebola outbreak likely stemmed from labs in Sierra Leone rather than bats flying 1,000 miles, according to critics questioning...
A cleanup of an unused section in a Maryland government laboratory revealed vials of smallpox virus stored in a facility that is neither approved nor...
WHO raises alarm over the 'scale and speed' of Ebola spread in DRC, where the virus—first identified in 1976—transmits primarily through direct...
Las Vegas police released raid footage and photos from a neighborhood “biological lab”, directly triggering an additional search of the California...
Former CDC Director Dr. Robert Redfield flags a recent Andes virus outbreak aboard a cruise ship as a stark reminder of Hantavirus human-to-human...
An expert discussed clandestine biolabs, biowarfare risks, and methods for distinguishing natural from lab-generated infections in a recent Redacted interview, deliberately using simple language to explain complex topics.
Bundibugyo virus Ebola epidemic has struck Ituri Province in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, with eight laboratory-confirmed cases, 246 suspected cases, and 80 suspected deaths reported as of 16 May 2026.
USAMRIID at Fort Detrick has studied hantavirus since the Korean War as a biodefense priority precisely because the pathogen aerosolizes easily and...
The DNI audit of 120+ U.S.-funded overseas biological facilities now centers on Ukraine's UP-8 Project, which studied Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever...
US biodefense pipelines are advancing high-risk hantavirus work through genome reconstruction rather than direct viral isolates.
CIA whistleblower James Erdman III testified that Anthony Fauci intentionally influenced intelligence assessments to downplay a laboratory accident in...
Shan-Lu Liu conducted unauthorized research developing a pseudo-typed lentivirus in a Biosafety Level 2 laboratory, highlighting how high-risk viral constructs can slip through regulatory cracks outside approved containment.
Hantavirus RT-qPCR assay primers and probe show exact matches to human genomic sequences, per BLAST analysis – meaning positives could stem from human DNA, not virus. This flaw questions test reliability in detecting true infections.
IC obstruction escalates: CIA took JFK and MKUltra documents from DNI Tulsi Gabbard's declassification review.
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