"A
'wonder' virus was discovered yesterday in China; tomorrow it will be
discovered in Egypt, but it will not be discovered either today, tomorrow or
the day after tomorrow in the US or Israel, nor in poor countries such as
Burundi or the Comoro Islands," the report said.
It also
went on to accuse the US and Israel of being behind other outbreaks over the
past several years in China and in the Arab world.
"As
soon as Egypt announced, a few years ago, that it would rely on poultry [raised
in the country], and that it would even export [poultry] abroad – that is, that
it no longer needed poultry from the US, France, and so on – [suddenly] there
appeared, from underneath the ground, the avian flu virus… with the aim of
nipping [Egypt's economic] awakening in the bud," the report said.
"Even
before this, the same thing was done in China… when in 2003 [the country]
announced that it had the [world's] largest dollar reserves [and] they [the
Americans] introduced coronavirus' cousin, SARS, into [the country]."
At the
beginning of February, Syrian daily newspaper Al-Thawra also claimed the
coronavirus and other outbreaks were part of a US-China war.
"From
Ebola, Zika, SARS, avian flu and swine flu, through anthrax and mad cow disease
to the corona[virus] – [all these] deadly viruses were manufactured by the US
and threaten to annihilate the peoples of the world," the report alleged.
"[The US] has turned biological warfare into a new type of war, by means
of which it intends to change the rules of play and shift the conflict with the
peoples [of the world] away from the conventional path."
A report
on the Egyptian news site Vetogate.com built on this theory even more,
specifying why Wuhan was supposedly chosen as the epicenter of the current
outbreak.
"American
factories are the first to manufacture every kind of virus and bacteria, from
the virulent smallpox virus and the bubonic plague virus to all the viruses we
saw in the recent years, such as mad cow disease and swine flu," the site
claimed. "Wuhan, the city that has now been struck by the corona[virus],
is an industrial town, but it is nevertheless the eighth-richest city in China
after Shanghai.
"Guangzhou,
Beijing, Tianjin and Hong Kong, are the country's major cities. [Wuhan's] place
at the bottom of the list [of China's major cities] is what makes it a suitable
[place] for an American crime... for it is not a focus of attention, and the
level of healthcare there is surely lower than in the larger and more important
cities." The news site adds that there is a theorized economic motivation
for the outbreak, as the supposed masterminds behind it will reap the billions
of dollars spent by China on emergency treatments and medicines, "which,
by the way, will be manufactured by an Israeli company."
Over
37,000 people around the world have been infected with the coronavirus as the
outbreak continues to spread. The current death toll is over 800 people.