Inside the high-security Influenza Research Institute at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, two experienced scientists were pulling ferrets out of their HEPA-filtered cages on a Monday in December 2019. Another researcher, still in training, was also in the room to watch and learn.
Lab-created bird flu virus accident shows lax oversight of risky ‘gain of function’ research
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The Destroyed Ukraine Bioagents: Dangerous or Benign?
by Jeffrey Kaye | March 25, 2022
Russia’s announcement that it had documentation that Ukrainian biological laboratories, largely funded by the U.S. Defense Department, had harbored “components of biological weapons” and “stockpiles of dangerous pathogens” created a propaganda circus in the press. The United States and Ukraine vigorously denied there were any such pathogens, even though public source documentation argued otherwise.
The Destroyed Ukraine Bioagents: Dangerous or Benign? (Archived)
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