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Bags of dead mice dropped on a campus sidewalk. Scratches from rabid animals. Unknown viral samples. Infected blood splashing into researchers’ faces.
These are just a few of the myriad examples of biosafety breaches that have occurred at a premier biological research lab on the Colorado State campus.
Receipts????????https://t.co/ZotUcQoQe4— White Coat Waste Project ????????️ (@WhiteCoatWaste) March 25, 2024
The information obtained through FOIA demands from The White Coat Waste Project is really disturbing, as is the fact that Colorado State is building a facility to do bat research along with the EcoHealth Alliance, likely parent of the COVID-19 virus.
WCW has uncovered an alarming pattern of recent animal lab accidents at Colorado State University, which is working with the notorious EcoHealth Alliance and the NIH to build a new bat lab and breeding colony.
Never-before-seen records obtained by WCW show that from 2020 to 2023, dozens of animal lab accidents with bats, cats, hamsters, and mice exposed CSU staff to coronaviruses, Zika, rabies, Tuberculosis, and other dangerous pathogens that can cause deadly outbreaks.
Last year, WCW exposed how $12 million of taxpayers’ money is being wasted by CSU and EcoHealth to build a new lab and import hundreds of bats from Asia to establish a new breeding colony and infect them with deadly viruses, including Ebola and Nipah
The new bat lab at CSU is now scheduled to be completed in December 2024
I am a fan of the White Coat Waste Project, although I may be a bit less zealous at times than they are on some issues. They have revealed vital information about dangerous or unnecessarily cruel animal experiments and have more than once generated bipartisan support for reforms.
