A new congressional report detailed disturbing stonewalling around plans to engineer a pandemic capable Monkeypox virus. It may be a case study in just how secretive Fauci's former agency is. It turns out the NIH/NIAID have been approving and funding dual-use research on Monkeypox for years, and they've been intentionally ignoring and evading oversight inquiries about it. "Over a period of 18 months, the HHS, the NIH, and NIAID repeatedly obstructed and misled the Committee about whether the transfer of genes from clade I into clade II experiments…had been approved or conducted." "Internal NIH documents show this experiment was formally proposed and received approval before the NIH's Institutional Biosafety Committee (IBC) on June 30, 2015." # Congressional Investigation ## Article Overview [Fauci’s institute hid mpox gain-of-function plans from Congress and the media](https://usrtk.org/risky-research/fauci-institute-hid-mpox-gain-of-function-plans/) from Emily Kopp at US Right to Know.  > For nearly nine years Anthony Fauci's institute concealed plans to engineer a pandemic capable mpox virus with a case fatality rate of up to 15 percent, congressional investigators revealed in a new report Tuesday. > > In June 2015, a scientist at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases received formal approval from the National Institutes of Health's Institutional Review Board for experiments expected to engineer an mpox virus with high transmissibility and moderate mortality. > > NIAID — the institute Fauci oversaw for nearly four decades and which underwrites most federally funded gain-of-function research — concealed the project's approval from investigators with the House Committee on Energy and Commerce over the course of a 17 month-long investigation. > > A new interim report describes the obstruction and secrecy around the mpox proposal as a case study in how the institute "oversees and accounts for the monitoring of potentially dangerous gain-of-function research of concern." > > The revelations land amid global concerns about whether coronavirus gain-of-function research — research that might generate pathogens with increased pathogenicity or transmissibility — may have contributed to the worst pandemic in a century. > > The committee, in conjunction with the House Committee on Oversight and Reform, is also investigating coronavirus gain-of-function research underwritten by NIAID at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, and faces similar stonewalling in that investigation, a committee aide said. ## Energy & Commerce Report Press Release: https://energycommerce.house.gov/posts/e-and-c-republicans-release-interim-staff-report-on-nih-misconduct-and-inadequate-oversight-involving-taxpayer-funded-risky-mpxv-research-that-jeopardizes-public-health-security  ### Timeline  ### Report [Direct Link](https://d1dth6e84htgma.cloudfront.net/MPVX_Interim_Staff_Report_and_Appendices_final_844c87e06f.pdf) <div style="left: 0; width: 100%; height: 0; position: relative; padding-bottom: 60%;"><iframe src="https://docs.google.com/viewer?embedded=true&url=https://d1dth6e84htgma.cloudfront.net/MPVX_Interim_Staff_Report_and_Appendices_final_844c87e06f.pdf" style="top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; position: absolute; border: 0;" allowfullscreen></iframe></div> ## Monkeypox ### First Appearance [A Pox-Like Disease in Cynomolgus Monkeys](https://ia800403.us.archive.org/9/items/a-pox-like-disease-in-cynomolgus-monkeys/A%20Pox-Like%20Disease%20in%20Cynomolgus%20Monkeys.pdf) > During the summer and fall of 1958 two outbreaks of a non-fatal pox-like disease in cynomolgus monkeys have been observed in the monkey colony in this institute. Both outbreaks occurred rather late after the monkeys had been received, i.e. 51 and 62 days after arrival and only a small percentage of the exposed animals showed signs of illness. <div style="left: 0; width: 100%; height: 0; position: relative; padding-bottom: 60%;"><iframe src="https://docs.google.com/viewer?embedded=true&url=https://ia800403.us.archive.org/9/items/a-pox-like-disease-in-cynomolgus-monkeys/A%20Pox-Like%20Disease%20in%20Cynomolgus%20Monkeys.pdf" style="top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; position: absolute; border: 0;" allowfullscreen></iframe></div> ### Experiments & Gain of Function [A review of experimental and natural infections of animals with monkeypox virus between 1958 and 2012](https://sci-hub.se/10.2217/fvl.12.130) <div style="left: 0; width: 100%; height: 0; position: relative; padding-bottom: 60%;"><iframe src="https://docs.google.com/viewer?embedded=true&url=https://ia600409.us.archive.org/9/items/a-review-of-experimental-and-natural-infections-of-animals-with-monkeypox-virus-/A%20review%20of%20experimental%20and%20natural%20infections%20of%20animals%20with%20monkeypox%20virus%20between%201958%20and%202012.pdf" style="top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; position: absolute; border: 0;" allowfullscreen></iframe></div> ## Monkeypox Vaccination HHS ASPR: [SNS Products: Vaccines and Treatment Available for Use in the Mpox Response](https://aspr.hhs.gov/SNS/Pages/Mpox.aspx) FDA: [Key Facts About Vaccines to Prevent Monkeypox Disease](https://www.fda.gov/vaccines-blood-biologics/vaccines/key-facts-about-vaccines-prevent-monkeypox-disease)  https://www.fiercepharma.com/vaccines/bavarian-nordic-scores-fda-nod-for-smallpox-and-monkeypox-vaccine-jynneos <iframe src="https://odysee.com/$/embed/@SomeBitchIKnow:0/MostDangerousVaccine:2?r=GSuUFDTeMAgKXr6FKP1Xnu5a6Myac1KG" allow="fullscreen" allowfullscreen="" style="height:100%;width:100%; aspect-ratio: 16 / 9; "></iframe> Produced by Michael Rosenbaum, Elliot Kirschner, 12-11-2002 60 Minutes investigates the history of the smallpox vaccine and its terrible side effects. %%Footer Starts Here%% --- <center><img src="https://archive.is/do5ay/df25cfff93575f174c387ac9f4c64744da0fadb9.png" alt="Keep digging!" height="100px"></center> --- ### Tags ### Linked Pages & Footnotes