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Government officials had raised concerns about the program having the potential to inadvertently cause the exact kind of pandemic it was dreamed up to prevent.
Two years after launching what officials hailed as a five year flagship project for hunting viruses among wildlife to prevent human pandemics, the US Agency for International Development is shuttering the enterprise. David Willman reports A flagship project for the controversial practice of hunting viruses among wildlife in South East Asia, Africa, and Latin America to prevent human outbreaks and pandemics is being quietly dropped by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) after private and bipartisan criticism over the safety of such research, The BMJ has found. For mor...
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The coronavirus pandemic has brought increased attention on research being done on emerging viruses found in animals, but have not infected humans. But he dangers involved have some concerned it could result in another pandemic.