Authorities have allegedly uncovered an unlicensed, biotech laboratory with connections to China in a warehouse located in the town of Reedley, California, The Daily Mail reports.

According to reports, authorities found hundreds of vials containing several deadly pathogens at the black market lab including streptococcus pneumonia, malaria, E. Coli, HIV, chlamydia, herpes 1 and 5, rubella and hepatitis B and C.

The Daily Mail provides more details:

If it were not for an errant hose sticking out of the back of the warehouse last spring, city officials would not have known that a shady biotech company with links to China had set up shop there, filling it with industrial freezers, hundreds of vials of pathogens, and about 1,000 dead and dying lab mice.

Government investigators also found Covid diagnostic and pregnancy tests at the underground testing facility that they believed were being developed there, in addition to at least 20 stored infectious agents, including coronavirus, HIV, hepatitis, and herpes.

The lab was run under a company called Prestige Biotech unlicensed for business in California, whose president Xiuquin Yao said was a successor to the now-defunct company Universal Meditech Inc. However, officials dispatched to addresses linked to the companies turned up at empty office buildings or addresses in China that could not be verified.

Joe Prado, who works with the Fresno County Department of Public Health, stated:

‘Here at the public health department we operate our own lab so we’re very well versed in the legal requirements and how to maintain and control an infectious agent. And there was just a complete absence of those controls in place at the warehouse.’

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