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Font Size: Dr. Anthony Fauci urged scientists to voluntarily stop research that created a deadlier form of the flu in 2012, the New York Times reported at the time. The manmade, more contagious form of the flu “sparked intense public fears that the deadly virus could accidentally leak out of a laboratory, or be stolen by terrorists, and result in a devastating pandemic,” the Times reported in 2012. Scientific research that enhances the lethality and transmission of dangerous viruses, called gain of function, has received new attention as officials and scientists have suggested that SARS‑CoV‑2, the virus that causes COVID-19, may have leaked from the Wuhan Institute of Virology lab in China.

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