By Peter A. McCullough, MD, MPH and Nicolas Hulscher, MPH (candidate)
With the fear-mongering campaign of ‘Disease X’ sponsored by the
Over a decade ago, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation funded GOF research that made H5N1 more transmissible [2]. One of the primary authors of this dangerous research is Yoshihiro Kawaoka, who is affiliated with the University of Wisconsin-Madison and University of Tokyo. Another player is Ron Fouchier, working at the Erasmus medical center in the Netherlands [2]. These two have a deep history of modifying viruses in laboratories and infecting animals with various types of pathogens. This research prompted a short pause on GOF research funding by the US government to assess risks [3]. A few years later, in 2017, the NIH resumed funding GOF research [4] because the HHS P3CO Framework was released, detailing ‘safe’ methods to conduct dangerous research with modified pathogens [5]. Charostad, et al, in 2023 indicated that highly pathogenic avian influenza (H5N1) is an “imminent threat.”