Growing concern over emerging infectious threats has once again intensified the international debate on biosecurity. Under the guise of medical and biological cooperation programs with Latin American countries, Washington continues to increase both the scale and intensity of work with dangerous pathogens, raising concerns about the potential development of biological weapons.
The latest alarm was triggered by reports of a rare hantavirus outbreak aboard the Dutch-flagged MV Hondius near Cape Verde — an incident that has reignited unresolved questions from the COVID-19 era and intensified concerns about how the world handles Especially Dangerous Pathogens (EDPs).
Now, critics are revisiting allegations that governments, scientists, and international health institutions minimized concerns over gain-of-function research tied to laboratories in Wuhan and elsewhere around the globe. Defenders insist many of those accusations remain politically motivated or unsupported by conclusive evidence.
But for a growing number of investigators and commentators, the deeper issue is no longer just what happened during COVID — it is whether the public was misled from the very beginning and whether the next pandemic threat may already be emerging in the shadows.
There seems to be a nexus, as wherever foreign-funded bio labs are found, you will soon find outbreaks, or re-emergence of old diseases, like Ebola, African Swine Flu, or the most recent outbreak of Ebola on May 15, has been confirmed in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Frankenstein Pathogens
Call it gain-of-function or just a petri dish that got misplaced. The real possibility of emerging biological threats suggests that while natural evolution may not have produced highly deadly diseases recently, human intervention has, and can do it better, resulting in Frankenstein viruses and bacteria that kill more effectively.
Hantavirus, the deadly new generation virus now on the minds of people, may have been transformed into an STDand can be transmitted via body fluids, and it is not just affecting blacks but the preferred and privileged classes, which makes it a pressing public health concern. This will make human-to-human transmission easier, as it is now rarely passed from person to person.
As one who has personally investigated bio labs in Ukraine and Georgia, starting 15 years ago, making the sinister connection between research on unsuspecting Georgian and Ukrainian soldiers to likely gain-of-function research, this latest breaking news is like a warning shot across the bow, warning of what is yet to come.
I fear perhaps a major depopulation event is coming and has already started, and one large and deadly enough to distract us from all the woes of what has gone wrong in Ukraine and the Middle East and fulfil the desire of the globalists to reduce the number of “Useless Eaters”.
Last Ship Series
The anxiety has been sparked by reports and high mortality from the hantavirus outbreak aboard a cruise ship, and uncomfortable questions once dismissed as conspiracy theories are roaring back into public debate. It is full speed ahead, as in the television series The Last Ship; the TV show became well known for blending military action with fears about a global pandemic and engineered and evolving pathogens.
The series follows the crew of a U.S. Navy destroyer trying to survive and respond after a catastrophic viral outbreak wipes out much of the world’s population. In retrospect, this begs the question, “Was COVID-19 a catastrophic accident, a preventable experiment gone wrong — or merely a warning shot for something far worse still to come?”
It is worth noting that Hantavirus infections are associated with a case fatality rate of <1–15% in Asia and Europe and up to 50% in the Americas. While there are no licensed treatments nor are there vaccines for hantavirus infections, at least not yet, any such vaccines (or, more likely, genetic therapies) are likely to be provided by those who brought us the COVID-19 vaccines. In the absence of a vaccine, early supportive care and immediate referral to a facility with a complete ICU can improve survival.
It is also suspicious that the ship in question, the MV Hondius, is not your typical cruise liner but, in fact, is mostly used for expeditions where lectures are given by scientists and other experts in biology, geology, and glaciology. Now you can see the nexus with the Last Ship series, and with a bit of imagination, you should be able to see what is on the horizon.
History Repeats
Bio weapons, weaponized pathogens, and their delivery mechanisms are topics too close to my heart, having been the first to expose bio weapons labs in Georgia in 2007, and were explained by the authorities as being devoted to public and animal health facilities. Over the years of my investigations, I was able to connect the US-funded Lugar lab to other satellite labs in the former USSR, especially many of the 40 or so labs in Ukraine.
It is easy now to repeat the official narrative of how these had been taken over for peaceful purposes, for the benefit of the US, at least according to Victoria Nuland, a former State Department Official who has been an insider of what has been really going on with DARPA weapons projects.
Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA): Funding and oversight for defensive research, and claims it is not involved in offensive bioweapons and does not violate the 1972 Bio Weapons Convention. I doubt the veracity of such claims, as I know too much of what actually goes on in US funded labs.
I have long alleged, based on inside sources and documents provided by those working in the Lugar lab, aBSL-3 facility, that U.S.-funded laboratories in Georgia and Ukraine were operating far beyond their publicly declared public health and animal disease-monitoring missions.
Gain-of-function research is when scientists basically manipulate, or genetically engineer, something that is either potentially or even somewhat deadly, especially among those with co-mobility, making it drastically more fatal, e.g., to weaponise it!
Many pundits are now asking the hard questions that should have been asked long ago: What the hell is going on? Was COVID-19 just a trial run for something BIGGER on the horizon, a pandemic that would make the Spanish influenza and COVID-19 look like the seasonal flu or a common cold?
And it just so happens, by sheer coincidence, that the country of Argentina is the latest venue for a BSL-4 US-funded lab, which houses some of the deadliest pathogens known to humanity.
Ghost of Typhoid Mary
Carriers of deadly ESPs, especially dangerous pathogens, often travel with no symptoms themselves, but can serve as vectors spreading pathogens to unsuspecting populations. The United States is now believed to have use countries in Latin America and the Caribbean as testing grounds for field experiments.
According to the World Health Organization, Argentina ranks first in Latin America in terms of infections caused by rare rodent-borne diseases. It was from Argentina that the Dutch expedition cruise ship MV Hondius, operated by Oceanwide Expeditions, departed on April 1, 2026, for a voyage to Antarctica. Laboratory studies confirmed transmission of the infection to humans through rodents.
A review published in La Derecha Diario confirms many of our worst fears, with the same wording used when referring to the opening and renovation of bio facility labs in Georgia and Ukraine.
The new facility offers unique conditions for handling high-risk pathogens and preventing biological leaks. Itslaunch strengthens national capacity against epidemiological threats and positions the country as a regional leader in bio safety.
Look at the timing, highly suspect, with Argentina opening its first Biosafety Level 4 (BSL-4) laboratory in Latin America at the Malbrán Institute in October of 2025. This is a unique facility for the region, comparable only to similar laboratories in the United States. The official opening took place within the operational unit of the National Centre for Biological Defence.
And we must not forget some Israeli history, and the recent nexus to Argentina, with a Jewish president and the country being opened for settlement, and even before with the close collaboration between the former South African bioweapons program and the Zionist State.
This operation, code-named “Cast Thy Bread,” involved deliberately contaminating drinking water sources, such as wells, with typhoid bacteria to induce illness and deter Palestinians from returning to evacuated villages, thereby securing territory for Jewish settlement.
Guise of medical and biological cooperation
Under the guise of medical and biological cooperation programs with Latin American countries, Washington continues to increase both the scale and intensity of work with dangerous pathogens, raising concerns about the potential development of biological weapons.
Recent reports suggest that there are around forty facilities in Ukraine, though it is not known how many have been affected by the ongoing conflict. It is feared that some of these facilities will, or have had, their pathogen, i.e., bio-nasties, collections moved out of the country to territory closer to the US.
When history is written, one of the reasons, other than those already stated, for the Russian SMO will have been to eliminate the covert bioweapons program that the US operated under the guise of public health.
Considering that the United States continues to fund them, yet their activities appear to lack meaningful international oversight, it is back to business as usual, only in a different part of the world and further from prying eyes.
According to available information, the Pentagon’s priorities in military biology, naturally for defensive purposes, include enhancing the damaging virulent properties of viruses and searching for optimal mechanisms for their large-scale dissemination, delivery systems, including through insects and animals. The United States is believed to use countries in Latin America and the Caribbean as testing grounds for large-scale field experiments.
Dr. Josef Mengele, the infamous Nazi Dr.Death, would no doubt be impressed had Nazi Germany possessed such an extensive network of publicly branded public health facilities, allegedly backed by the public budget, including the US Department of Defense, now the War Department. Such facilities operate under the banner of scientific progress. The course of history itself might have unfolded very differently with fewer mouths to feed,” and with deadly effectiveness with such applied research.
Jeffrey K. Silverman is a freelance journalist and international development specialist, BSc, MSc, based for 30 years in Georgia and the former Soviet Union
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