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[ 25-02-2020 ]
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[ International Relations ]
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[ China ]
      [https://torontosun.com/news/world/did-coronavirus-outbreak-begin-from-infectious-disease-lab-in-wuhan

      Did coronavirus outbreak begin from infectious disease lab in Wuhan?
      Postmedia News
      Published: February 24, 2020

      A specialist infectious disease laboratory located in the epicentre of the coronavirus outbreak in China may in fact be ground zero for the disease.

      China’s only Level 4 microbiology lab is facing increasing scrutiny after the Chinese Ministry of Science and Technology released a new directive titled “Instructions on strengthening biosecurity management in microbiology labs that handle advanced viruses like the novel coronavirus.”

      “It sure sounds like China has a problem keeping dangerous pathogens in test tubes where they belong, doesn’t it?” argues Steven W. Mosher, president of Virginia-based Population Research Institute, in the New York Post.

      The National Biosafety Laboratory, located in the Wuhan Institute of Virology, is the only lab equipped to handle deadly coronaviruses. And Wuhan is at the centre of the outbreak, with nearly 77,000 people infected and more than 2,500 deaths in China.

      “The virus may have been carried out of the lab by an infected worker or crossed over into humans when they unknowingly dined on a lab animal,” Mosher writes. “Whatever the vector, Beijing authorities are now clearly scrambling to correct the serious problems with the way their labs handle deadly pathogens.”

      However, the Wuhan lab said the accusation that the outbreak was caused by a leak has “caused great harm to our research staff on the front line of scientific research,” reports Reuters.

      The institute has been accused of “artificially synthesizing” the coronavirus in one of its laboratories, it added.

      “If there is an infectious disease lab in a city where an outbreak starts, it usually gets the blame,” it said.

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