"What happens if we have these hearings and nothing happens? In December 2019, we performed a remote audit, forensic examination of the Wuhan Institute of Virology and found synthetic biology experiments with the Nipah virus. As the chart shows, they had created a cloning vector with a virus the U.S. CDC defines as a bioterrorism agent. Nipah virus is one of the deadliest on the planet, with a greater than 60 percent lethality. Why were they conducting this experiment? I do not know. But laboratory-acquired infection with this virus, if it became airborne, would make COVID-19 look like a walk in the park."
[Senate Hearing 117-555] [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office] S. Hrg. 117-555
"REVISITING GAIN OF FUNCTION RESEARCH: WHAT THE PANDEMIC TAUGHT US AND WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE?"
from https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CHRG-117shrg48703/html/CHRG-117shrg48703.htm
[Nipah Virus Links]
Twenty Years of Nipah Virus Research: Where Do We Go From Here?
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7213572/
NIH extends funding of research into deadly Nipah virus
https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2020/11/nih-extends-funding-research-deadly-nipah-virus
Scientists Uncover Structure of Critical Component in Deadly Nipah Virus
https://hms.harvard.edu/news/scientists-uncover-structure-critical-component-deadly-nipah-virus
Multi-platform omics analysis of Nipah virus infection reveals viral glycoprotein modulation of mitochondria
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2211124725001822
Host cell receptor for Nipah and Hendra viruses identified
https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/biosecurity-issues/host-cell-receptor-nipah-and-hendra-viruses-identified
Scientists Uncover Structure of Critical Component in Deadly Nipah Virus
https://hms.harvard.edu/news/scientists-uncover-structure-critical-component-deadly-nipah-virus#
Structural and functional analysis of the Nipah virus polymerase complex
https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(24)01434-X
Henipavirus in Northern Short-Tailed Shrew, Alabama, USA
https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/31/2/24-1155_article
EphrinB2 is the entry receptor for Nipah virus, an emergent deadly paramyxovirus
