Republican Legislators Question NIH-Funded Bat Research Lab in Colorado

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Republican legislators are raising questions about a laboratory in Colorado funded by the National Institutes of Health that includes a bat research facility, but lab officials claim that concerns are overblown.

Earlier this year, Colorado State University received $6.7 million from the NIH to expand its long-standing bat research and breeding program, which studies how bats influence the ecosystem and how they host, transfer, and withstand viruses. Some legislators, including Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, recently raised concerns about the lab.

"Americans have suffered enough from Fauci-funded risky research, which is why I am working to defund EcoHealth that funneled taxpayer dollars to the Chinese state-run Wuhan Lab," she continued. "The world cannot afford another lab leak, especially one on U.S. soil or near our military bases." Greg Ebel, a CSU virologist and project leader for the bat research facility, told The Denver Post: "This isn't a bat COVID lab. It's not a bioweapons lab. We're not working with Ebola or Nipah virus or any of these things. I'm not interested in losing my job or going to jail or interested in doing research that's going to carry home pathogens to my wife or my child. Those kinds of things are beyond ridiculous.

Source: Healthcare Press (healthcarepress.net)

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