Illegal Las Vegas Biolab Being Used to Justify Broad Sweeping Federal Biosecurity Bill

February 6, 2026

https://jonfleetwood.substack.com/p/illegal-las-vegas-biolab-disclosure?

Illegal Las Vegas Biolab Disclosure in Congressional Record Leads to New Federal Biosecurity Bill Shielding Pathogen Data From Public Scrutiny

A crisis narrative becomes justification for FOIA-exempt biosecurity expansion.
Jon Fleetwood
Feb 04, 2026
A recently disclosed illegal biolab raid in Las Vegas—now formally entered into the Congressional Record—is being used by lawmakers to justify a sweeping new federal biosecurity bill that would dramatically expand executive and national-security control over biological research while exempting large portions of pathogen surveillance data from public disclosure laws.  (See link for article which is behind a paywall)
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**Comment**
What began as a garden hose sticking out of a building resulting in a code-violation call, turned into a raid by SWAT teams, FBI, and hazmat wearing workers.
The lab was found in a residential home where potential biological materials were in a locked garage. Over 1,000 samples were collected and are being tested.  There were multiple refrigerators with vials of unidentified liquids in gallon-sized containers along with a centrifuge and other lab equipment.
Chinese national, Ori Solomon, believed to be the property manager at the location, was arrested and charged with felony disposal/discharge of hazardous waste in an unauthorized manner, but has pled not guilty. Despite being in possession of a non-immigrant visa, he was in illegal possession of six firearms and subsequently charged with a felony gun crime. Officers found French and Israeli passports in his name as well. (Ori Salomon on the French passport and Ori Solomon in the Israeli passport).  Three additional renters in the home were evidently not involved. Source
An LLC tied to the home’s county records matches the name of a company which is part of an ongoing federal case in Reedley, California also involving a biological lab. Chinese citizen, David He (aka Jia Bei Zhu, Jesse Zhu, and Qiang He) was arrested in 2023 for manufacturing and distributing misbranded medical devices and for making false statements to the FDA.  To deflect authorities He changed his name, and the names of his companies and their locations.
He and romantic and business partner Zhaoyan Wang, told prosecutors COVID-19 test kids were pregnancy tests in order to get them into the U.S.  He received money from Chinese banks and housed thousands of samples of potential pathogens labeled: HIV, malaria, TB, COVID-19, dengue fever, and Ebola, along with blood, tissue, other bodily fluid samples and serums, and 1,000 transgenic mice (engineered to mimic the human immune system).
Interestingly, He has not been convicted yet and has plead not guilty.
The items found in LA were consistent in appearance with the items in Reedley.

Authorities insist this is an isolated incident that poses no threat to the public, despite employees cleaning the house described feeling “deathly ill” after entering the garage, and multiple people who had stayed at or visited the house reported serious illness, including respiratory issues and extreme fatigue.

Ha, ha, ha……they must really believe we are stupid.

 

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Pathogenic Priming Nearly Six Years Out

https://popularrationalism.substack.com/p/pathogenic-priming-nearly-six-years?

Pathogenic Priming Nearly Six Years Out: What Do We Know?

The question in 2026 is no longer whether pathogenic priming is biologically plausible. The question is: What do we do about it?
James Lyons-Weiler, PhD
Jan 24, 2026

In April 2020, “Pathogenic priming likely contributes to serious and critical illness and mortality in COVID‑19 via autoimmunity” introduced a specific concept, backed by data, that repeated exposure to immunogenic viral epitopes that share homology with human proteins would likely prime the immune system toward pathogenic autoimmunity, with consequences that extend beyond acute infection to multi‑system disease and long‑term morbidity.

That paper, funded by the public via IPAK, did not merely assert that “molecular mimicry is possible.” It catalogued predicted autoreactive homology between SARS‑CoV‑2 epitopes and human proteins across immune‑relevant pathways, showed that only one immunogenic epitope lacked human homology, and explicitly warned that exposure by infection or injection carried foreseeable autoimmune risk if those homologous regions were used uncritically in antigen design.¹

Nearly six years later, the literature citing that work no longer sits at the level of conjecture. It contains experimental demonstrations of antibody cross‑reactivity, functional autoantibodies with physiological effects, validated biomarker panels that discriminate post‑acute sequelae of COVID‑19 (PASC), post‑vaccination prolonged‑symptom cohorts with defined autoantibody signatures, tissue‑level immune injury documented at autopsy, and population‑scale shifts in autoimmune disease incidence. The question in 2026 is no longer whether pathogenic priming is biologically plausible. The question is which parts of the causal chain have been empirically observed, which endpoints are now measurable, and where precision still fails.

This article synthesizes that record using the PubMed‑indexed citation corpus associated with the original 2020 paper, frozen as of January 2026, and focuses on what has been observed, not merely predicted.  (See link for article)

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Weiler and others warned us about pathogenic priming repeatedly.

And here is Weiler’s paper which provides an assessment of potential for human pathogenesis via autoimmunity via exposure, via infection or injection.  Potential has now become reality with measurable evidence.

Now the goal should be to find therapies to alleviate or reverse this autoimmunity caused by exposure to unsafe epitopes.

The evidence is clear.  Important quote:

Pretending otherwise is no longer scientifically defensible. ~ James Lyons Weiler

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Do You Still Need to Worry About Ticks in the Winter? (YES)

https://www.southernliving.com/are-ticks-dormant-in-winter

Do You Still Need To Worry About Ticks In The Winter?

Here’s what to know about these parasites.
By Arricca Elin SanSone
Published on February 1, 2026
A close-up shows a tick moving across light-colored pants,
Credit: Getty Images

You typically don’t encounter as many insects while you’re outdoors in winter as you do the rest of the year. But that doesn’t mean everything  that bites is hunkered down until spring. “Many tick species will have adults active during the winter months,” says Sonja L, Swiger, PhD, professor, medical entomologist and extension specialist with Texas A&M AgriLife. “Since ticks are blood feeders, they do quite well throughout the winter months because they are on a host.”

Of course, ticks don’t just bite; they also carry diseases that make people and pets sick. “The most commonly encountered tickborne pathogen in the Southeast is Rocky Mountain spotted fever,” says Swiger. But Lyme disease is also a threat, though it’s not transmitted at the same rate as it is in places such as the Northeast. Other diseases that ticks can pass to people and pets include ehrlichiosis and anaplasmosis.

In addition, if you think a cold or snowy winter will knock down ticks, that’s just wishful thinking. Harsh weather doesn’t really impact the tick population as a whole. “Ticks have been around for millions of years and are very good at what they do. They know how to survive,” says Eric Benson, PhD, professor emeritus and extension entomologist with  Clemson University. “During winter, many species of ticks go into diapause, a state when they reduce their metabolism to conserve energy to survive.”

 Here’s what else you should know about ticks in winter:  (See link for article)

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**Comment**

Great reminder to stay vigilant.

The article points out what this website has been publishing for years: ticks are marvelously ecoadaptive and will simply hide under leaf litter or snow when weather becomes harsh. This also proves that the climate and/or ‘climate change‘ has nothing to do with tick survival and disease propagation.  They are simply built to survive.  About the only thing they can’t handle is fire!

The article then lists ways to prevent tick bites.  Go here for a multi-pronged approach.  Pet owners have nearly two times the risk of finding ticks, so multiple areas need to be addressed.

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The Often Overlooked Link Between Oral Health and Lyme Disease

https://www.lymedisease.org/oral-health-lyme-disease/

The often overlooked link between oral health and Lyme disease

By Terri McCormick

1/19/26

Lyme disease and other tick-borne illnesses are often discussed in terms of joints, nerves, and immune dysfunction. One critical area is frequently overlooked: the mouth.

That gap was the focus of a recent clinical lecture on oral–systemic health and its relevance to tick‑borne disease, presented by Dr. Alexander Volchonok, a board‑certified periodontist with advanced training in biologic dentistry. He collaborated with Dr. Susan Marra, a physician who treats complex chronic illness, including Lyme disease and co‑infections.

Their central message was clear: oral health extends beyond the teeth and gums. From a whole-body perspective, the mouth plays an active role in immune regulation, inflammation, and systemic signaling. In some patients with tick-borne disease, unresolved oral inflammation may contribute to ongoing immune activation and stalled recovery.

This is especially relevant for the Lyme community, where many patients hit treatment plateaus despite appropriate antimicrobial and supportive care. Identifying hidden sources of persistent inflammation may help explain why progress sometimes slows.

How the mouth connects to the rest of the body

The mouth is a primary gateway between the outside world and the immune system. Microbes, nutrients, toxins, and inflammatory signals pass through the oral cavity and can influence immune activity throughout the body.

The oral cavity hosts one of the body’s most active microbiomes, made up of hundreds of bacterial species along with fungi and viruses. When balanced, this ecosystem helps regulate immune function, support digestion, contribute to healthy blood flow through nitric oxide production, and protect the body’s natural barriers.

The gums are an important part of the body’s defense system. When they’re healthy, they help keep germs and irritants from entering the bloodstream. But if that balance is disrupted, inflammation in the mouth can worsen and send signals that affect the immune system throughout the body.

Oral microbiome dysbiosis and chronic inflammation

Oral disease develops when the microbiome shifts from a healthy balance (symbiosis) to an imbalanced state (dysbiosis). In dysbiosis, protective bacteria decline, harmful species expand, inflammatory biofilms form, and the immune system remains chronically activated.

This shift can be accelerated by factors commonly seen in people with Lyme disease and other complex chronic illnesses, including immune dysregulation, medication effects, reduced saliva flow, nutrient deficiencies, chronic stress, and autonomic dysfunction.

Once dysbiosis takes hold, oral inflammation may become self-sustaining, contributing not only to local problems in the mouth but also adding to the body’s overall inflammatory load.

Periodontal disease as a chronic inflammatory driver

A major focus of the lecture was periodontal disease, an infection-driven inflammatory condition affecting the tissues that support the teeth. It can progress from mild gum inflammation to deep pockets, bone loss, and eventual tooth loss.

Importantly, periodontal disease often advances quietly. Pain is not always present, especially in early or moderate stages. Chronic inflammation at the gum line creates a persistent wound with direct access to the bloodstream, allowing inflammatory mediators and microbial byproducts to influence the body’s wider immune response.

In patients with tick-borne disease, where immune regulation is already impaired, this ongoing inflammatory input may compound symptoms and hinder recovery.

Dental and jawbone pathology that may go unrecognized

The lecture also addressed dental and jawbone problems that may not be immediately apparent during routine dental exams. These include infections associated with teeth that have lost their blood supply (sometimes called necrotic teeth) and areas of impaired bone healing following dental procedures.

One example was jawbone that fails to heal properly after extractions, wisdom tooth removal, or other dental trauma. Reduced blood flow and low oxygen levels in these areas can limit the body’s ability to detect and resolve inflammation.

Because these issues are often silent, patients may have no symptoms even while underlying problems persist and add to the body’s overall immune load.

Why antibiotics alone may not resolve the issue

In tick‑borne disease, some tissue environments are notoriously difficult for systemic treatments to reach. The lecture noted that the oral cavity can share these same challenges—such as biofilm formation, low‑oxygen pockets, and reduced blood flow in diseased areas.

As a result, antimicrobial therapy may reduce symptoms without fully resolving underlying inflammatory drivers if oral disease remains unaddressed. This does not suggest antibiotics are ineffective, but rather that persistent oral inflammation may continue to stimulate immune responses even when systemic treatment is appropriate.

How oral health fits into Lyme disease care

From a whole-body perspective, oral health is not a stand-alone issue. It’s part of an interconnected network involving the immune system, nervous system, vascular system, and inflammatory signaling pathways.

Addressing oral disease is not a replacement for medical treatment of Lyme disease. Instead, it may serve as an important adjunct within an integrated care model, particularly for patients who struggle to make lasting progress despite appropriate treatment.

Why this information matters to the Lyme community

This lecture did not claim that oral disease causes Lyme disease. Rather, it highlighted how unresolved oral inflammation and hidden dental pathology may contribute to ongoing immune activation and complicate recovery in some individuals.

For people living with Lyme disease and associated co-infections, the mouth may be an overlooked source of inflammatory stress. Integrating oral health into a whole-body evaluation may help clinicians and patients identify contributors to illness that would otherwise remain hidden.

The key takeaway is not to assume dental issues are the root of chronic illness, but to recognize that oral health may be an important piece of the puzzle when healing stalls.

About the speakers

This discussion on oral–systemic health and its relevance to tick-borne disease was led by Dr. Alexander Volchonok and Dr. Susan Marra, two clinicians working at the intersection of complex chronic illness and whole-body care.

Dr. Volchonok is a board-certified periodontist with advanced training in biologic dentistry. His clinical work focuses on the relationship between oral health, inflammation, and systemic disease, with particular attention to dental and jawbone conditions that may go unrecognized during routine care. During the presentation, Dr. Marra noted that his combination of specialty training and biologic dentistry expertise is rare in the United States.

Dr. Marra is a physician who treats patients with complex chronic illness, including Lyme disease and associated co-infections. Her work centers on immune dysregulation, chronic inflammation, and integrative care approaches for patients who struggle to achieve sustained improvement.

Terri McCormick is a writer and advocate with LymeDisease.org. She is author of the forthcoming book Being Misdiagnosed: Stories That Reveal the Hidden Epidemic of Lyme Disease.

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Take Action: Biggest 2026 Supplement Threats

February 4, 2026

https://anh-usa.org/the-biggest-supplement-threats-in-2026/

The Biggest Supplement Threats in 2026

By The ANH Team 
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The Biggest Supplement Threats in 2026

We’re up to our knees working on which policies will have the biggest impact on your supplement access in 2026. Let’s make sure we get the best possible outcomes to assure your access to the health products you need. Action Alert!

THE TOPLINE

  • 2026 is shaping up to be a pivotal year for supplement access, with multiple federal and state policies advancing that could sharply limit consumer choice.
  • Major federal threats include FDA moves on GRAS reform, Senator Durbin’s supplement “listing” bill, and stricter New Dietary Ingredient rules, all of which could raise costs, eliminate thousands of products, and give the FDA broad new tools to restrict supplements.
  • State-level bills targeting youth access to weight loss and muscle-building supplements could unintentionally restrict common nutrients for everyone, reducing visibility and availability of safe, beneficial products and undermining public health rather than protecting it.

We’re off to a blazing start in 2026, which is looking very likely to be a pivotal year for health freedom. We have lots of irons in the fire—we’ve been telling you about our ongoing legal efforts to open up free speech about the benefits of supplements and to protect natural medicines like homeopathy, CBD, natural desiccated thyroid, and peptides. But bad policies are also moving forward on multiple fronts that require your sustained grassroots opposition.  

Here’s a survey of the top initiatives we have our eyes on in 2026:

The ‘GRAS’ Isn’t Always Greener

An FDA rule is due to be issued any time now that will make big changes to the “Generally Recognized as Safe” (GRAS) pathway by which certain food and many dietary supplement ingredients enter the market. It’s been an oft-stated priority for HHS Secretary RFK Jr. and it has been included (as the first item) on a list of 2026 deliverables at the FDA.

We’ve written many articles about this topic in the last year, including providing a white paper on the subject that explains in details how GRAS reform can be done without massively reducing consumer choice and chilling innovation. The main issue at play is the “loophole” by which companies can self-certify ingredients as GRAS (or, “self-GRAS”) without any transparency or FDA review. As we’ve explained in our own blueprint for GRAS reform, we agree that more transparency is needed, but we can’t “throw the baby out with the bathwater” and eliminate self-GRAS entirely, as we’re afraid the FDA is on the verge of doing. Self-GRAS is in fact how many safe, natural supplement ingredients come to the market, so eliminating it will have major ramifications for supplement access.

We are still working on influencing key people in the administration to guide GRAS reform to ensure continued access to health-promoting products.

Supplement Choices Going…Going…Gone!

Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) has once again introduced his anti-supplement listing bill. We discussed this in last week’s coverage. In short, what sounds like an innocuous transparency measure could actually have a major impact on your supplement access, threatening high-dose products and innovative formulations, raising prices, and reducing choice. The bill gives the FDA a hit list that it can use to attack supplements that haven’t complied with its overreaching policies. It’s been a bad idea for a long time. We’ve beaten Sen. Durbin before, and we can do it again, but only with your help.

State-based Threats

A number of states are considering bills that would prohibit the sale of weight loss and muscle building supplements to those under the age of 18. These bills use vague definitions that could sweep in a wide range of supplements—including protein powders, hormones, and essential nutrients—risking unnecessary restrictions on products unrelated to weight loss, even during a public health crisis.

Some proponents argue that these measures are needed to protect children from “unhealthy weight control behavior,” which are risk factors for eating disorders. This is a noble goal, but the language in these bills casts a wide net that could limit access to products that have nothing to do with weight loss. Additionally, some of these bills require restricting access to these products by placing them behind a counter or in a locked case, so access for everyone, not just minors, is restricted. Hidden from a customer’s view, some people may never become aware of a product that would perfectly suit their health needs—or be too intimidated to ask for it.

The result is reduced access to beneficial products for all consumers, which undermines—not protects—public health.

We’ve identified several states considering these bills. Click your state’s link to take action.

Alaska

Hawaii

Illinois

Massachusetts

Michigan

New Hampshire

Washington

New Dietary Ingredients

This threat has been simmering for a long time at the FDA. The law calls for all “new” (that is, post-1994) supplements that come to the market to comply with “new dietary ingredient” (NDI) requirements. Yet the FDA has turned what was supposed to be a notification process into a complicated and expensive pre-market approval process for all “new” supplements. And to make it worse, the agency has adopted an exceedingly broad view of what counts as a “new” supplement. When we asked a legal scholar and economist to estimate the market impact of the FDA’s NDI rules, the results were astounding:

  • as many as 41,700 products disappearing from store shelves;
  • an industry-wide cost of between $2 billion and $165 billion in animal and human product safety studies to comply with the FDA’s NDI notification protocols; and
  • the loss of between 55,270 and 104,475 jobs in the supplement industry.

“Regulation of New Dietary Ingredients” was another item on the FDA’s list of 2026 deliverables, so we will be on the lookout for developments and update you accordingly.

This is far from  an exhaustive list, but these are the top threats we’re looking out for in the coming weeks and months. As ever, we will remain vigilant in the defense of every Americans’ health autonomy and alert you when threats arise and how your voice can be heard so we can work together to defend the health freedom of every American.

Go here to oppose ‘mandatory filing’ for supplements

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