This new project at the University of South Florida is the Wuhan controversy playing out all over again, but on American soil and with a far deadlier pathogen.
USF is now playing the exact same role as EcoHealth Alliance.
EcoHealth funneled US money to a lab in China to study novel coronaviruses. USF has now physically brought more than 1,200 human samples from a Black Death mass grave in Venice to its lab in Florida.
The stated goal is to sequence the DNA from those skeletons. But the inevitable result, dictated by academic policy, is that they will publish the full genetic blueprints of the plague online.
So a US university, under the banner of “public health research,” is creating an open-source library for a pathogen with a 50% mortality rate. It’s the same dangerous pipeline as Wuhan, just with a different university and a much more lethal disease.
Building on the Jerash breakthrough, the team is now expanding its research to Venice, Italy and the Lazaretto Vecchio, a dedicated quarantine island and one the world’s most significant plague burial sites. More than 1,200 samples from this Black Death-era mass grave are now housed at USF, offering an unprecedented opportunity to study how early public health measures intersected with pathogen evolution, urban vulnerability and cultural memory.
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/08/250828002415.htm
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