Illegal California Lab Run By Chinese Biotech Firm Contained Mice Engineered To Spread Covid-19

  The City of Reedley’s code enforcement team stumbled upon the lab last December, with a months-long investigation revealing that Prestige BioTech and Universal Meditech Inc. were holding vials of at least 20 infectious viruses, bacteria, and parasites – including COVID-19, E. Coli and malaria, according to court documents filed at the Superior Court of the State of California.