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Last Updated: May 22, 2021, 10:17 AM IST
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Countless labs handle dangerous pathogens, not always vigilantly, multiplying the chances of leaks by accident or design
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Rupa Sengupta is consulting editor, Times of India.
Did a Chinese wet market breed Sars-CoV-2? Or did the virus escape from China’s high-security Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV)? Despite its association with ‘conspiracy theorists’, the ‘lab leak’ idea has gained purchase. You’ll see why.
Recently, two highly informative articles served as eye-openers on the issue Nicholson Baker’s ‘
The Lab Leak Hypothesis’ in New York magazine, and Nicholas Wade’s ‘