Shan Chao was directed to "find out which one had the best ability to infect as many species as possible," and to "find out how easy it was to infect other species."
Both COVID vaccines and the virus itself are "plausible triggers" of the disease, but the study authors specify that vaccines were "more frequently" linked to the ulcers than the virus.
The Department of Justice announced last week that it had charged four chemical companies based in China and eight Chinese nationals for the trafficking fentanyl precursor chemicals into the United States.
A bill from the House Appropriations Committee would ban EcoHealth Alliance and the Wuhan Institute of Virology from receiving funds from U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and other sources leading to the State Department.
The DOJ's Office of Public Affairs release stated that Kingsbury "improperly removed and willfully retained" a total of 386 classified documents over her 12-year service period with the FBI's Kansas City division.