The National Institutes of Health awarded a new grant to EcoHealth Alliance to study bat coronaviruses, despite past scrutiny over its ties to the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
The National Institutes of Health issued a new grant to research firm EcoHealth Alliance to studydespite a previous grant to the company drawing scrutiny over its links to the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
The NIH grant was awarded for project titled"Analyzing the potential for future bat coronavirus emergence in Myanmar, Laos, and Vietnam," on Sept. 21, 2022 by National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, which is run byuntil his forthcoming retirement. The grant provides EcoHealth Alliance with $653,392 covering a period until Aug. 31, 2027, government records show.
"Most pandemics are caused by animal-origin viruses that emerge in regions where people have high contact with wildlife and where illnesses or outbreaks may be missed," a public health relevance statement on the project's NIH website says.
The statement says that the project"will conduct in-depth surveys and serological testing in communities with high exposure to wildlife, identify wildlife reservoirs of the coronaviruses they are exposed to, and use clinic-based surveillance to assess cases and clusters of associated illnesses, as well as testing public health strategies to disrupt spillover and spread.
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