Source: WUNC, 8/19/20


The mouse infected with a lab-created type of SARS coronavirus was squirming upside down, dangling by its tail as a scientist carried it to a weighing container one day in February 2016. But the mundane task turned dangerous in seconds inside the North Carolina laboratory, which has drawn scrutiny for its partnership on similar research with China’s Wuhan Institute of Virology. In that moment, it wasn’t enough that the experiment was taking place inside a biosafety level 3 lab...

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