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An illegal lab in California containing nearly 1,000 bioengineered mice has officials concerned after improperly stored tissue samples were tested and discovered to contain infectious diseases including HIV and Hepatitis.

"This is an unusual situation. I've been in government for 25 years. I've never seen anything like this," Reedley City Manager Nicole Zieba said, per local news outlet KRON4.

The makeshift lab contained roughly 30 refrigerators and freezers — some of which were non-operational — as well as incubators, medical testing supplies, and hundreds of mice. Several disease samples tested from the lab included infectious agents like herpes, coronavirus, E. Coli, and malaria, SFist reported.

Wang Zhaolin, a representative of the company operating the lab, Prestige Biotech, told investigators that the mice inside the warehouse had been genetically engineered to catch and spread the COVID-19 virus, according to The San Joaquin Valley Sun.

The warehouse came under investigation in March after a local code enforcement officer discovered a garden hose attached to a back wall of the building. As officials searched, medical devices that appeared to have been created on-site, such as COVID-19 and pregnancy tests, were also discovered, NBC News reported.

"Certain rooms of the warehouse were found to contain several vessels of liquid and various apparatus," NBC reported court documents related to the incident said. "Fresno County Public Health staff also observed blood, tissue and other bodily fluid samples and serums; and thousands of vials of unlabeled fluids and suspected biological material."

Nearly 800 of the mice found inside the warehouse were euthanized by officials, per NBC. An additional approximately 175 mice were already dead when they were discovered.

"There was over 800 different chemicals on site in different bottles of different acids," KRON4 reported the assistant director of the Fresno County Department of Public Health, Joe Prado, said. "Unfortunately, a lot of these are being categorized under unknown chemicals."

All of the biohazard material within the lab has been destroyed as of July 7, NBC reported, though an investigation into the lab's origins and activity remains ongoing.

The CDC and Fresno County Department of Public Health did not immediately respond to Insider's requests for comment.

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why is this not national news?

Probably because our fine federal government officials were not only aware but complicit.

Or the "media" really likes the Chinese

Or the "media" just sucks...

It made sigforum a few days ago in his thread:

Mysterious Chinese COVID Lab Uncovered in City of Reedley CA

https://sigforum.com/eve/forum.../m/9320007564/p/1178

Why isn’t it a major story?

Because the American corporate media is hands down a bunch of the most evil, useless, feckless, corrupt, and worthless pieces of shit. Words fail to express the visceral hatred I harbor towards the corporate media. I wish people would open their eyes and realize the corporate media is the enemy of the people.

They profit off of death and destruction and don’t give a single fuck about anything but themselves and growing their power and influence.

Corporate media is too preoccupied sucking China’s tiny little dick to worry about tedious things like honesty, integrity and love of country.

The nice thing is over time their power will continue to decline. There will always be morons who trust them but those numbers are shrinking year after year.

Gearhound and Stickman nailed it.
I wonder if the only reason it's even been outed is that it no longer serves its original purpose.

Because the U.S. citizens lives and health is worth less to our elected officials than anything that China wants.