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A secret biolab discovered at a home in Las Vegas may have links to a similar lab in California that housed samples of deadly infectious diseases including malaria and HIV.
The Las Vegas home, in Sugar Springs, was raided by police and FBI agents, who described finding a “possible biological laboratory,” including “refrigerators with vials containing unknown liquids.”
A second location was also searched, but no lab was located.
One man is in custody in connection with the raid. Samples taken will be tested by the FBI to determine their nature.
The Hill reports, “An LLC tied to the Sugar Springs home’s county records matches the name of a company that is part of an ongoing federal case in California involving a biological laboratory there. In that case, a Chinese citizen faces federal charges for allegedly manufacturing and distributing misbranded medical devices, according to federal prosecutors.”
“Inside the Reedley Biolab, officials observed blood, tissue and other bodily fluid samples and serums; and thousands of vials of unlabeled fluids and suspected biological material, raising the concern that they contained pathogens,” according to a federal report from the Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party.
Investigators also located “pathogen-labeled containers” with labels such as “dengue fever,” “HIV,” and “malaria,” the report said, along with a thousand mice, presumably for incubation of the pathogens and experiments.
The man connected to the California biolab remains in federal custody ahead of a trial this spring.
