A bombshell trove of documents has exposed that the now-defunct U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) funded the transfer of over 11,000 virus samples — including some genetically close to COVID-19 — to the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) without any formal agreement, chain of custody, or plan for retrieval.
This reckless scheme unfolded under USAID’s $210 million PREDICT program, which operated for a decade and was quietly steered by University of California–Davis with deep ties to EcoHealth Alliance — the same controversial group that funneled taxpayer funds to Wuhan for gain-of-function research.
No Oversight. No Backup. No U.S. Access.
According to internal documents obtained through FOIA litigation, USAID simply handed over the samples to Wuhan — no contract, no retrieval clause, no U.S. ownership.
“No need [sic] information from Yunnan. They were never an official lab partner for PREDICT. All samples they helped collected [sic] are sent to, tested, and stored in Wuhan,” the internal document reads.
That’s right — the epicenter of the pandemic was gifted thousands of potentially dangerous viruses from Yunnan Province, the very hotspot where some of COVID’s
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